List of archaeoastronomical sites by country
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This is a list of sites where claims for the use of archaeoastronomy have been made, sorted by country.
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[edit] Armenia
- Karahunj (Zorats Karer), ancient astronomical observatory with solstice alignment stones near the town of Sisian
- Metsamor, one of the world's first large metal foundries near the village of Metsamor with stones aligned in an astronomically significant pattern.
[edit] Australia
- Ngaut Ngaut, a claimed lunar calendar
- Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, rock engravings with claimed astronomical connections
[edit] Bolivia
- Tiwanaku, the Kalasasaya and its alignments
[edit] Brazil
[edit] Cambodia
- Angkor Wat
- Phnom Bakheng, According to Jean Filliozat of the École Française, the center tower represents the axis of the world and the 108 smaller ones represent the 4 lunar phases each with 27 days. [1]
[edit] Egypt
- Abu Simbel, The axis of the temple was positioned by the ancient Egyptian architects in such a way that twice a year, on October 20 and February 20, the rays of the sun would penetrate the sanctuary and illuminate the sculpture on the back wall, except for the statue of Ptah, the god connected with the Underworld, who always remained in the dark. [2][3]
- Great Pyramids of Egypt
- Nabta Playa
[edit] France
- Bondons menhirs
- Carnac, the Grand Menhir Brisé
- Cham des Bondons in Le Pont-de-Montvert
- La Fage menhirs
- Lacam de Peyrarines
[edit] Germany
[edit] Honduras
[edit] Indonesia
[edit] India
[edit] Iran
[edit] Ireland
- Brú na Bóinne
- Newgrange, once a year, at the winter solstice, the rising sun shines directly along the long passage into the chamber for about 17 minutes and illuminates the chamber floor. [4]
[edit] Macedonia
[edit] Malta
[edit] Mexico
- Chichen Itza, the caracol is theorized to be a proto-observatory with doors and windows aligned to astronomical events, specifically around the path of Venus as it traverses the heavens.[5] El Castillo the main pyramid also has archeoastronomy features.
- Dzibilchaltun, Spring equinox, the sun rises so that it shines directly through one window of the temple and out the other.
- Monte Alban, zenith tube
- Teotihuacan, the pecked-cross circles as survey-markers
- Uxmal, Venus alignment of the "Governor's Palace"
- Xochicalco, zenith tube
[edit] Peru
[edit] Portugal
[edit] Romania
- Sarmizegetusa Regia
[edit] Russia
[edit] Sweden
[edit] Syria
- Rujm el-Hiri, ancient megalithic monument in the Golan Heights which is currently occupied by Israel.
[edit] Ukraine
[edit] United Kingdom
- Ballochroy
- Callanish Stones
- Maeshowe, it is aligned so that the rear wall of its central chamber, a rough cube of five yards square held up by a bracketed wall,[6] is illuminated on the winter solstice.
- Prehistoric Orkney
- Stonehenge
- Woodhenge
[edit] United States
- Cahokia, City of the Sun.
- Chaco Canyon, cardinal orientations, meridian alignment, inter-pueblo alignments
- Anderson Mounds, Mounds State Park (Anderson, Indiana).
- Mesa Verde National Park
- Serpent Mound
[edit] Other Lists
- List Of Colossal Sculpture In Situ
- List of Egyptian pyramids
- List of megalithic sites
- List of menhirs
- List of Mesoamerican pyramids
- List of Roman bridges
- List of Roman domes
- List of statues
- List of statues by height
- List of tallest statues in the United States
- List of world's largest domes
- New Seven Wonders of the World
[edit] References
- ^ Time Life Lost Civilizations series: Southeast Asia: A Past Regained (1995) p.93-4
- ^ Alberto Siliotti, Egypt: temples, people, gods,1994
- ^ Ania Skliar, Grosse kulturen der welt-Ägypten, 2005
- ^ http://www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/newgrange/illumination.html
- ^ Anthony Aveni, Stairway to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997) 135-138 ISBN 0471159425
- ^ A History of Britain, Richard Dargie (2007), p. 12.
