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AFTER reading Mr. J. Norman Lockyer's papers on the connection of the orientation of Egyptian temples with the heliacal rising of certain stars, I was interested to find that a custom still exists in the neighbourhood of the Second Cataract having a strong resemblance to the old Egyptian custom.
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LYONS, H. The Stars and the Nile. Nature 47, 101 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/047101a0
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