The ancient Egyptian civilization was one of the earliest and greatest civilizations overall world..and the ancient Egyptians made many achievements covered most aspects of human life, including the political and social reforms, as well, progress their many scientific majors. Let’s now talk about what they have achieved in the science of astronomy.

Egyptians were very interested in the stars and constellations and they gave great care in exciting science. From the Middle Kingdom, the constellations were often depicted on coffins that Star watches, shows the length of time the stars were visible or invisible.

from the New Kingdom, the air of tombs and temples often appears constellation of stars. These constellations were the same as those we see today, but represented different. For example, Orion was represented as a man turning his head and Ursa Major was represented as a bull’s foreleg. From the Middle Kingdom, the Egyptians could recognize five planets, known as stars who know no rest, which were often associated with Horus, the Egyptian god of heaven

* Jupiter, known as Horus limiting two lands

* Mars, known as Horus Red

* Mercury known as Sebegu (god associated Seth)

* Saturn, known as Horus, bull heaven

* Venus, known as the god of the morning

ancient Egyptians had used astronomy for many different practical sides..and one of the best achievements was to put the new year at the same time with the rising of Sirius in mid-July annual flooding in the river.

Flood was happening every year and at the same time. The ancient astronomers and priests, after floods always occur on the summer solstice, which also just happened to be the bright star Sirius rose before the sun, and so, they were able to predict the annual flooding, a skill which in turn give them considerable power . Then they divided the year into twelve months of 30 days, after the five-day festival period.

In addition to this, .. Egyptians used astronomy timing temple building dedication, which rely on the visibility of the constellations we now refer to as the Great Bear and Orion … as well .. they could put the cardinal points for strategic pyramids by observing the North Star. Finally, it is important to say that the stars were not used to predict the fate of the people in Egypt until the Ptolemaic period when the Greeks introduced astrology. The most famous zodiac in Egypt is on the air Denderah and dates of the first century e.Kr .. This zodiac displays all familiar Zodiac signs, including Leo, Aries and Taurus.