The images were found carved into the ceiling of the Temple of Esna in Luxor ... completely preserved versions left, both from Dendera.” Zodiac signs aside, the restoration effort further ...

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists excavating the ancient Egyptian Temple of Esna have restored a series of ceiling paintings depicting the zodiac, a belt-shaped region of ...

Restorers painstakingly cleaned the zodiac artworks, many of which were painted onto the temple's ceiling ... a well-known example is a temple at Dendera, which has the zodiac along with images ...

Representation of the zodiac sign ... but not adorn temple walls and ceilings. “Apart from Esna, there are only two completely preserved versions left, both from Dendera,” said Daniel von ...

Compared with other ancient astronomical artefacts, the Egyptian carving known as the Dendera zodiac has been largely forgotten. Yet, two centuries ago, it was as celebrated as the just-discovered ...

The second phase of the Dendera Temple restoration ... Qena stands the beautiful Temple of Dendera, with its soaring columns, shrines, crypts, halls, and extravagant Zodiac ceiling and wall ...

An Egyptian-German research team has uncovered yet another series of colourful ceiling paintings at the Temple of Esna in Upper Egypt that have the complete representation of the zodiac.