[Michael Barnes]

These threads used to be awesome with the knowledge dropped.
Sad to see the bs jokes.

[bigheadfred]

” The Big Dipper's “location throughout the course of the night, across the course of the year, was important for them to report.”

As it spins lazily through the night sky, it would behoove a person to note it's position, being a prominent constellation, so when it got to a certain position they could expect the rising of Sirius just before the sun which would mean it was flood time in the Nile Valley.

[BenLurkin]

Don’t get me wrong — I find Sunken Civ’s threads to be extremely intersting but...

Exactly what use do you expect to make of the information from this article?

[Cold Heart]

I've also noticed that change in threads but look at them as a BTTT and tend to skip over them. Hope they don't prevent serious discussion but they seem too.

I noticed in the article it was mentioned that the perceived change of direction of the constellation may have been due to a scribe error. I can imagine a not too interested or sleepy observer putting down the wrong data.

[SunkenCiv]

We’re the “big tent” ping list here. :’)

Not Egypt-related, but some historians and literary scholars think King Arthur’s Round Table was a reference to the great (and imaginary) wheel of the heavens — Arthur himself being a personification of Arcturus. Interestingly, the Great Bear (which was also known as the Plough in Roman Britain) in Latin is Ursa Majorus. In Welsh, the word for bear is “Arth” (really “rl”, but anyway), so a macaronic version is Arthursa, viz Arthur, the great bear, king of the Britons.

[bert]

All work and no play makes Mike a dull boy