Gnomon Archive
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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Featured Stories
David Tee - AncientPages.com - Little is known about his life except that he lived between 610 and 546 BC. He was the son of Praxiades, a Milesian, and
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Historians and archaeologists have discussed the alignment of Egyptian pyramids for decades. The Great Pyramid is nearly perfectly aligned along the cardinal points—north, south, east and west—with
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas, near Monte Cassino, in Italy have unearthed a rare 2,00-year-old sundial. It’s still intact and has a Latin inscription that
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to ancient Indian epics and esoteric doctrine, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were two of the Seven Rishi Cities of the Rama Empire. Archaeologists and
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Ancient History Facts
Cynthia McKanzie - AncientPages.com - Without access to modern technology, calculating the circumference of the Earth in ancient times was by no means an easy task. Yet, two
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Astronomical tradition of ancient China was an important part the country’ cultural tradition and dates back to the Bronze Age and 1800 BC. Through
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Over one thousand years ago, in open, hand-built wooden ships equipped with massive, hand-loomed sails, the Vikings navigated the extremely challenging waters of
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