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Ceiling relief in the temple of Dendera, Egypt – [Olaf Tausch, March 7, 2011, (CC BY 3.0), via Wikipedia Commons]

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Appiah, Anthony. n.d. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.
Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press.

 Sydella Blatch, “Great Achievements in Science and Technology in Ancient Africa,”  ASBMB Today

Jackson, John G., John Henrik Clarke, and Runoko Rashidi. 2001. Introduction to African civilizations.
New York: Citadel Press. p.120.

James, George G. M.,. Stolen legacy. [Eratosthenes of Cyrene]

Mukhtār, Muhammad Jamāl al-Dīn. 1990. Ancient Civilizations of Africa. London [England]: J. Currey.

Osei, G. K. 1999. African Contribution to Civilization. Baltimore, MD: Imprint Editions.

Selin, Helaine. 2008. Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in
Non-western Cultures. Vol. 2, Vol. 2. Berlin [etc.]: Springer Verlag.

Smith, Bonnie G. 2008. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History.
Oxford [England]: Oxford University Press.

Volney, C.-F., and C.-F. Volney. 1991. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires;
and the Law of Nature. Baltimore, MD: Black Classic Press.

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“African Cultural Astronomy: Current Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy
Research in Africa,” Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, 2008

Ancient Astronomy in African

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