astronomy Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Like many ancient civilizations, the ancient Egyptians were deeply fascinated with the night sky, actively studying planets, stars, the moon, and other celestial
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The coastal town of Exmouth in Western Australia is due to experience one of the most spectacular astronomical phenomena on April 20 2023—a total solar eclipse.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A text thought to be lost by the astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century BC) has been discovered thanks to multispectral imaging, then deciphered
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have found fragments of the Star Catalogue composed
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Civilizations
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the spring of 1900, a group of Greek sponge divers, blown off course by a storm in the Aegean, stumbled upon the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Mobility shaped the human world profoundly long before the modern age. But archaeologists often struggle to create a timeline for the speed and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pyramids and temples of the ancient world were precisely aligned with the direction of the rising or setting sun, moon, star, or planet on
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The beauty of stargazing is that so many celestial objects are visible to the naked eye. Ancient people who did not have access
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Inhabitants of the sacred city of Caral were skilled architects, builders, and astronomers who studied celestial objects with great interest. Scientists have discovered
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If Ramses the Great, the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, was alive today, he would be proud to see how
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Human Beginnings
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Is it possible that certain cosmic events have shaped human evolution? One of the most puzzling mysteries concerns what caused humans to start
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Assyrians were brilliant astronomers who studied the sky with great interest. Scientists have discovered evidence of unusual solar activity 2,700 years ago
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Systematic observations of the sky were carried out by Babylonians living in southern Mesopotamia in the middle of the third millennium BC. MUL.APIN,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In ancient sources, Aglaonice (also Aganice) is mentioned as the first Greek female astronomer of the 2nd or 1st century BC and natural philosopher.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient civilizations have always been interested in watching the skies. Solar observatories were built world-wide and astronomy played an important role is humans’
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Archaeoastronomy
AncientPages.com - Comets and meteors have fascinated the human race since they were first spotted in the night sky. But without science and space exploration to aid understanding
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Archaeoastronomy
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient astronomical observatories can be found on both American continents and elsewhere. Ancient people who built ziggurats, temples, and observatories, aligned them to exact
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 727, the world's first mechanical clock was constructed by the Chinese Tantric Buddhist monk and mathematician Yixing (683-727). It was also an astronomical
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Did ancient Sumerians observe and record the impact of the Aten asteroid over 5,000 years ago? For over 150 years scientists have tried
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Some of the world's oldest cave paintings have revealed how ancient people had relatively advanced knowledge of astronomy. The artworks, at sites across Europe, are not simply
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A great number of archaeological sites and prehistoric monuments have revealed alignments towards celestial events that played an important role in the life of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The 'Thirteen Towers of Chankillo' run north to south along a low ridge and form an artificial toothed horizon that spanned - almost exactly
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Ancient Symbols
David Tee - AncientPages.com - In a nutshell, the Chakana Cross is a simple 3-step cross that captivated the minds and imaginations of the ancient Inca people. As
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Our ancestors studied the stars and other celestial objects with great interest. They observed the movements of the Moon, the Sun and the stars
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - A merkhet ("instrument of knowing") was an ancient Egyptian timekeeping instrument used for telling time at night. It is an amazing example of ancient technology. The device
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As previously stated in part 1 of this series, Venus was worshipped by our ancestors and the planet is frequently mentioned in myths, legends,
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Why did our ancestors worship Venus? As we are about to experience, behind a veil of worldwide legends, occult lore and sacred ancient writings
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As we continue to admire many marvelous ancient monuments across the world, we often ask ourselves - how did our ancestors build these
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Archaeoastronomy
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The magnificent Inca Machu Picchu ruins fascinate people of the modern world. Standing on the highest elevation within the Inca citadel is the
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Archaeoastronomy
AncientPages.com - The quest for the elusive Planet Nine continues. The mythical “Planet X” may actually be real, and scientists are calling it “Planet Nine.” Over the years, several astronomers
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Egyptian Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Known for her astronomical knowledge, Lady of the Stars, goddess Seshat played a vital role in the construction of sacred Egyptian buildings. She assisted
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Thalia Lightbringer – AncientPages.com - Many people gather every year to celebrate the spring equinox at Stonehenge, but did you know there is something similar, but older, in
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the distant past, people in Brazil raised fascinating megalithic structures still shrouded in mystery. One intriguing monument is Calçoene, also called the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Imhotep, the ancient Egyptian genius is today described as a mixture of a pharaonic Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, and Newton. There is no doubt
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya created many books, but almost all of them were burned by conquistadors and clergy. One of those who significantly contributed
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Archaeoastronomy
A. Sutherland- AncientPages.com - A fascinating ancient rock carving in India depicts two very bright objects visible in the sky. When scientists examined the carving they soon understood
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - At first sight, these large circles discovered in a field near Oława, a town in south-western Poland remind us of a crop circle. However, what we are seeing
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya were good astronomers who could record and interpret every aspect of the sky. They watched various celestial bodies and were more skilled astronomers than
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many look forward to the Great American Eclipse on August 21 this year. We think about eye protection equipment, weather conditions, and the
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Archaeology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There are many fascinating ancient petroglyphs in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Among them is one that researchers think represents an ancient total eclipse
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - At first glance, these ancient artifacts may look like ordinary bones covered with insignificant dots. That is not the case, however. Closer examination of
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Egyptian Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Egypt’s most mysterious and most interesting figure is the god Thoth (or Djehuty), as the Egyptians called him. This god was highly venerated in
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