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Month: September 2026

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September 17, 2026

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Egyptian star names in media

September 16, 2026

Barcelona – 9 September 2026. Jacinto Antón, a well-known journalist and outreacher, specialised in ancient Egypt, reported in El País, the most important Spanish newspaper, about a conference held at the University of Barcelona and mentioned specifically the attempts to put ancient Egyptian stars names “back” into the international sky. The headline reads: Spanish original…
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September 13, 2026

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News on the ASE

September 12, 2026

The All Skies Encyclopaedia (ASE) has been crawled by several search engines and AI-chatbots, which means it is becoming a standard reference, even feeding google search engine, chat-GPT, claude.ai, perplexity.ai and other common tools to provide their replies. In July and August, the ASE as been crawled so heavily that it became very slow or…
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