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Archaeoastronomy
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Without clocks or modern tools, ancient Mexicans watched the sun to maintain a farming calendar that precisely tracked seasons and even adjusted for
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AncientPages.com - Human beings have a conflicted relationship with the sun. People love sunshine, but then get hot. Sweat gets in your eyes. Then there are all the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A Polish archaeologist has made the find of a lifetime discovering a startling 3,000-year-old gold bowl decorated with a sun motif. The ancient
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The beautiful island of Unkonsaari in Lake Inari, northern Finland is sacred to the Sami people. Unfortunately, this holy place has also been
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - After being submerged for 50 years, the stunning Spanish Stonehenge can now be admired once again. The 5,000-year-old site believed to have been
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Ancient Babylonians were excellent astronomers who wrote down their observations on cuneiform tablets. By studying ancient records of lunar and solar eclipses carved in clay tablets, dating back
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AncientPages.com - On May 15, 1836, Francis Baily, an English amateur astronomer, observed a celestial phenomenon known as Baily's Beads. In May 1836, Baily traveled to Inch Bonney, Roxburghshire,
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