Zawi Hawass published in 2009, In Search of Cosmic Order: Selected Essays on Egyptian Archaeoastronomy. This book contains Unveiling Seshat: New Insights Into The Stretching of the Cord Ceremony by Juan Antonio Belmonte, Miguel Angel Molenero Polo, and Noemi Miranda. I was excited to find this today (4/22/12) because I have been wanting to see more research on the tools used in the early building sciences of Kemet. I wanted to know more about the symbol of Seshat which was obviously linked to tools in use. But where was the analysis and pictures? Well this essay gives a good commentary on the subject. They say it was the Roman period that stopped using Seshat in the iconography, which was seen as early as the time of King Khasekhemuy. They correlate the Roman gromae with Seshat. A groma is a vertical staff with a cross at the top used for surveying. The stretching of the cord ceremony can be seen in iconography dating back to the 2nd Dynasty (2890 to 2686 BC). It was brought to my attention by a friend some years ago that it is also in the bible written by King Solomon. Ezra 3:10-12
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