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Archaeoastronomy of the Temples of the Bekaa Valley [PDF]
Heritage, 2021 The Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, is famous worldwide due to the magnificent temple of Heliopolitan Jupiter at Baalbek. In recent years, new research revived the interest in the unsolved problems posed by the Baalbek monuments, including original dating and ...
Giulio Magli, Magli Giulio
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Maria Reiche's line to archaeoastronomy [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2013 Maria Reiche was a German mathematician and archaeologist that, from 1940, devoted her life to the study of the Nazca Lines, the most famous Peruvian geoglyphs, gaining recognition and preservation of them. Created by removing the upper most layer of the
Sparavigna, A.C.
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Archaeoastronomy in the Khmer Heartland
Studies in Digital Heritage, 2017 The heartland of the Khmer empire is literally crowded with magnificent monuments built in the course of many centuries. These monuments include the world-famous "state-temples", such as Angkor Wat, but also many other temples and huge water reservoirs ...
Giulio Magli
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A prehistoric Native American pictograph that signals the summer solstice [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2021 The current article examines a 90 cm. tall, prehistoric Native American pictograph painted in red ochre which depicts a red Anthropomorph wearing a “V”-shaped headdress.
McHugh John, Lundwall John, Howells Tom
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The symbolic use of light in Hadrianic architecture and the 'Kiss of the Sun' [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2018 In this presentation we will discuss three Roman monuments of the times of Emperor Hadrian (117-138 AD): the Villa Adriana at Tivoli near Rome, the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome (now Castel Sant'Angelo) and finally the Pantheon (also in Rome).
De Franceschini, M., Veneziano, G.
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The prototype of ancient analemmatic sundials (Rostov Oblast, Russia) [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2016 The article presents the results of a study of petroglyphs on a unique stone slab discovered near the kurgan 1 of the kurgan field Varvarinsky I (Rostov Oblast, Russia).
Vodolazhskaya, L.N. +2 more
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Russian meteorite of the Bronze Age (rock record) [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2014 This paper presents the results of the study of petroglyphs found in the quartzite grotto near the Skelnovsky small village in the Northern Black Sea in the South of Russia. The aim of the study was the analysis and interpretation of the Early Bronze Age
Vodolazhskaya, L.N., Nevsky, M.Yu.
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Forty-Four Years of Polish Archaeoastronomical Research in Latin America
International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, 2020 Since the late 1980s, there has been a considerable growth in the numer of Polish contributions to the Latin American archaeoastronomy. Much of this interest in archaeoastronomy is an outcome of the scientific activities of Professor Andrzej Wiercinski ...
Stanisław Iwaniszewski
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The Great Salbyk barrow in Siberia (archaeoastronomical aspects of its studying) [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2014 The article The Great Salbyk Barrow is the best known of the megalithic monuments in Siberia. Archaeologist S.V. Kiselev excavated the Salbyk-barrow, the largest barrow in Khakasia in 1954-1956.
Marsadolov, L.S.
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Tamila Mikhaylovna Potemkina and field archaeoastronomical seminars in Russia [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2017 The article provides brief information about the field seminars, archaeoastronomy / astroarchaeology conducted in Russia over the past 10 years. T. M. Potemkina took an active part in the organization and conduct of these seminars.
Gienko, E.G.
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