zodiac

Until now, no one had ever found a sign of the zodiac encoded in Egyptian rock art. But that has all changed, as scholars from Macquarie University in Australia have identified an ancient Egyptian petroglyph in the village of el-Hosh that features a depiction of the creature who represents the zodiac sign Capricornus, a mythical animal with the front quarters of a goat and the body of a fish. In an article just published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Dr. Linda Evans and Dr. Frederick Hardtke present the results of their analysis of this intriguing Egyptian petroglyph that had never been identified before. It was discovered by Dr. Hardtke while he was doing fieldwork in Upper Egypt. "The goat-fish