Doris Vickers

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Doris Vickers (born 1980) is an Austrian archaeoastronomer and content manager for the Unesco Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy. [1]

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She was a global co-ordinator of the Ancient Skies project, along with Ruediger Schulz. [2] The project began in 2006 aiming to create a knowledge base of human cultures and their knowledge of astronomy, with the vision "One Planet – One Mankind – One Sky – One Knowledgebase", and as of July 2016 is "currently transferring the complete project to a new environment". [3]

In February 2016 she appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity . Her hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was a star clock. [4]

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  1. ↑ "Web portal project - core team". Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy. UNESCO . Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "About us". Ancient-Skies: Human Cultures and Their Skies. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Home page". Ancient-Skies: Human Cultures and Their Skies. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Series 8: Hound, Vickers, Smit". The Museum of Curiosity. BBC . Retrieved 29 July 2016.


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