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Reconstruction of ancient Egyptian sundials [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2014 The article presents the results of a study of the design features of vertical and L-shaped ancient Egyptian sundials, developed their models, on the basis of which the reconstruction of the sundial was carried out.
Vodolazhskaya, L.N.
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The sky from the high terrace. study on the orientation of the Ziqqurat in Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]
, 2016 The ziqqurat is the symbol of the Mesopotamian sacred architecture in the western thought. This monument, standardized at the end of the III millennium BC by the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur, has changed during the history of Mesopotamia its shape ...
NADALI, Davide, Polcaro, Andrea
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Muinasobservatooriumite jälgedel - mõnest arheoastronoomia probleemkohast [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2011 The article takes a critical look at archaeoastronomy as a marginalised area of research and dwells upon the so-called “bad examples” with an aim to highlight the methodological reasons why archaeoastronomy is not considered a true science.
Tõnno Jonuks
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2016 FBC earthen long barrows were roughly oriented along the East-West axis, with deviations not exceeding the frame of the solar arc. Also, the Sandomierz Group monuments display this general pattern.
Stanislaw Iwaniszewski
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Personification of the Sun, the Moon and the planets in fourteenth century Serbian iconography [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020 This paper investigates the celestial-religious images in fourteenth century Serbian Christian Orthodox iconography, painted in the Byzantine style. The focus of this research is on the fresco of the Sun, the Moon, the planets and the Zodiac, from the ...
Van de moortel-Ilic, D.
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Ovid, the Fasti and the stars [PDF]
, 2007 According to Quintilian, poetry cannot be fully understood without a good knowledge of the stars. As one example he cites the fact that poets frequently indicate the time of year by the rising and setting of stars and constellations, a device familiar ...
Robinson, M.
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On the orientation of Roman towns in Italy [PDF]
, 2007 As is well known, several Roman sources report on the existence of a town foundation ritual, inherited from the Etruscans, which allegedly included astronomical references.
Magli, Giulio
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Landscape construction and time reckoning in Iron Age Celtic Iberia
Documenta Praehistorica, 2016 In this paper, we report on three areas of the Iberian Peninsula that were occupied at least during the Iron Age and the early stages of Romanisation, where observations of astronomical phenomena in the landscape, rock carvings, and Latin inscriptions ...
A. César González-García +2 more
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Astronomical features of Ural megalithic monuments orientation [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2014 There is a presence of archaeological monuments of the early and middle Holocene in the middle Trans-Urals, which may be associated with the act of sky survey, determined by this specific landscape.
Viktorova, V.D., Anisimov, N.P.
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An introductory view on archaeoastronomy [PDF]
, 2016 Archaeoastronomy is still a marginalised topic in academia and is described by the Sophia Centre, the only UK institution offering a broader MA containing this field, as ‘the study of the incorporation of celestial orientation, alignments or symbolism in
Bateman T +73 more
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