Work Packages 

Units and Tasks are described as Work Packages (WPs) to achieve the Project’s Objectives. 

WP1 Project Management. 

WP2 Archaeology. WP2 will include three research lines: 

1) Identification and description of time measuring devices including monuments devote to astronomical observation connected with time clocking.

2) Collection and study of visual representations of time (seasons, months, hours, constellations, decan stars) in Egyptian paintings and reliefs and Mesopotamia glyptic and reliefs: catalogue of symbols and imageries of related myths.

3) Identification and description of monuments, art representations, and finds connected with time-marking feasts and festivals (e.g. Mesopotamian New Year Feast and Egyptian Pharaohs’ Jubilees). 

WP3 Texts. WP3 includes a thorough collection of texts from epigraphic and literary sources in Egypt and Mesopotamia (extracted from available repertoires) referring to time measurement, organization and, especially calendarizations, as well as myths describing the subdivision of seasons, years, months, day and night, hours. 

WP4 Time measuring devices 3D modelling. Ancient sundials and other time-measuring complexes or moments will be digitally reconstructed in 3D combining them with available reconstruction of ancient sky as visible from the geographic coordinates where monuments are. 

WP5 Data Management and Exchange Platform.

WP6 Religious and proto-scientific thought. WP6 envisages a detailed analysis of myths concerning time definition (night and day, year, seasons, rising of constellations and stars) to deepen our knowledge of ancient Egyptians’ and Mesopotamians’ thought.

WP7 Power control over time and calendars. WP7 focuses on how political entities controlled time through the imposition of official calendars, which were considered given by gods.

WP8 Results Achievement.