Juan Antonio Belmonte Avilés is Research Professor of Astronomy at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Tenerife, Spain) where he investigates exoplanetsand cultural astronomy. He has published or edited nearly twenty books and authored more than 200 publications on those subjects. He has been the president of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) from 2005 to 2011, and of the International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (ISAAC) from 2017 to 2020, and is the current president of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Commission C4 "World Heritage and Astronomy". In 2012 he received the "Carlos Jaschek" award of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture for his contributions to the discipline. He has performed extensive research on the astronomical traditions of ancient civilizations, concentrating in the ancient Mediterranean cultures, notably in Egypt.

José Lull García studied Egyptology at the University of Tübingen (Germany). He is a specialist in history and chronology of the Egyptian New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, as well as in ancient Egyptian astronomy. He is currently a researcher at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IEPOA) and lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). He has written several books on Egyptology and more than one hundred articles published in scientific and outreach journals.

Written by two expert researchers in the field

Includes a glossary of terms in astronomy and Egyptology

Contains over 200 detailed tables, drawings, diagrams and full-color images

Chapter 1. Cosmogonies: the formation of the ancient Egyptian universe.- Chapter 2. Egyptian astronomers throughout history.- Chapter 3. Measuring time: ancient Egyptian star, water, and solar clocks.- Chapter 4. Mapping the stars: the skies of ancient Egypt.- Chapter 5. The calendar of ancient Egypt: a gift of the Nile.- Chapter 6. Egyptian land- and skyscapes.- Chapter 7. Astronomy and chronology.