Synchronized with Nature
Measuring Time in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia:
Archaeological and Textual Evidence (a PRIN2022 Project)
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What did Time mean for ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians?
According to the EU Horizon 2021-27 objectives, in order to reconnect our modern society with Nature, it is important to re-establish a new conception of time that may help re-synchronizing our lives with nature.
The "Synchronized with Nature" (SYN-NAT) Project originates from the synergic work of an interdisciplinary research team composed by three Units: Sapienza University of Rome, P.I. Lorenzo Nigro (PO Near Eastern Archaeology, L-OR/05), University of Catania, Sub P.I. Nicola Giovanni Laneri (PA Near Eastern Archaeology, L-OR/05), and University of Messina, Team Leader Annunziata Rositani (RTDB Assyriologist, L-OR/03).
The "Synchronized with Nature" (SYN-NAT) Project originates from the synergic work of an interdisciplinary research team composed by three Units: Sapienza University of Rome, P.I. Lorenzo Nigro (PO Near Eastern Archaeology, L-OR/05), University of Catania, Sub P.I. Nicola Giovanni Laneri (PA Near Eastern Archaeology, L-OR/05), and University of Messina, Team Leader Annunziata Rositani (RTDB Assyriologist, L-OR/03).
The SYN-NAT Project main goal is to understand how time was conceived, measured, and made congenial to the socio-economic organization of Egypt and Mesopotamia from their early stages in the Proto- and Early-Dynastic Period to the New Kingdom in Egypt, and from the Late Uruk to the Kassite period in Mesopotamia (c.3500-1150 BC). The social impact of the Project is to stimulate such a reflection starting from of a concept of time based on an harmonical relationship with nature and cosmos which originated in ancient eastern world. The impact of SYN-NAT Project lays also in the attempt to catch the scientific knowledge acquired by Egyptians and Mesopotamians, as to understand their proto-scientific languages, including symbols and images. For this purpose the project intersects and creates dialogue between ten different disciplines: Prehistory, Egyptology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Assyriology, Semitic Epigraphy, History of Science, Theoretical Philosophy, Geomatic, Astrophisics, Hydraulic Engineering.
The SYN-NAT Project main goal is to understand how time was conceived, measured, and made congenial to the socio-economic organization of Egypt and Mesopotamia from their early stages in the Proto- and Early-Dynastic Period to the New Kingdom in Egypt, and from the Late Uruk to the Kassite period in Mesopotamia (c.3500-1150 BC). The social impact of the Project is to stimulate such a reflection starting from of a concept of time based on an harmonical relationship with nature and cosmos which originated in ancient eastern world. The impact of SYN-NAT Project lays also in the attempt to catch the scientific knowledge acquired by Egyptians and Mesopotamians, as to understand their proto-scientific languages, including symbols and images. For this purpose the project intersects and creates dialogue between ten different disciplines: Prehistory, Egyptology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Assyriology, Semitic Epigraphy, History of Science, Theoretical Philosophy, Geomatic, Astrophisics, Hydraulic Engineering.
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