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MR. RICHARDS'S short note of eleven pages, which has been published by the Survey of Egypt, deals with observations which were made in 1913 and 1914 to determine the azimuth of the axis of Karnak temple. In 1890 Sir Norman Lockyer took some preliminary observations, which suggested to him that the temple at the time of its foundation had.been definitely oriented to the sun at sunset at the summer solstice, a conclusion which others made by Mr. Wakefield in 1891, and later by Mr. Howard Payn (NATURE, October 19, 1911) appeared to confirm.
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"Note on the Age of the Great Temple o Ammon at Karriak as determined by the Orientation of its Axis." By F. S. Richards. (Cairo Government Press, 1921.)
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LYONS, H. Orientation in Egypt1. Nature 108, 587 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108587a0
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