This year’s annual meeting of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) took place in Catania, Sicily, from November 13 to 15. The motto of the conference was “Skyscapes on the Sun Island” and it took place in the late Baroque monastery of San Nicolò l’Arena, which dates back to the 17th century, is one of the largest Benedictine monasteries in Europe, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Around 50 conference participants, including most of the luminaries of archaeoastronomy, had gathered to hear about 35 lectures. Eberhard Zangger reported on “Eflatunpınar versus Yazılıkaya: Vertical and Horizontal Hittite Celestial Order.” According to this, these two probably most famous Hittite monuments ultimately represent the same thing: the structures of the cosmos, divided into horizons, according to the cosmovision of the time.
SEAC annual meeting in Catania
