tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59198472024-11-01T11:40:20.108+01:00Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy - photo by Peter Kennett in the public domain (here clipped from the Wikipedia)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5919847.post-57716542649116620462012-05-18T20:14:00.001+02:002012-05-18T20:23:26.543+02:00

Jeffrey Kluger has the story at TIME Magazine in Oldest Known Mayan Astronomical Calendar Stuns Scientists.

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Ancient sea travellers had heads in the clouds - Telegraph"A stone tool found on a remote Pacific island has provided evidence that early Polynesians travelled 2,500 miles by canoe using only the stars, clouds and seabirds as navigational aids."

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TIME reads:California Tree Carving Hints at Early Chumash Astronomy.graphic by Rick Bury linked from the TIME articleMatt Kettman in his TIME report titled A Tree Carving in California: Ancient Astronomers? writes inter alia about an article published by paleontologist Rex Saint Onge in the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology:"It became increasingly obvious to Saint Onge that the

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To questions that dogged astronomers, a Sirius solution - via The Boston Globe, February 6, 2010, by Alan M. MacRobert, Globe correspondent and senior editor of Sky & Telescope magazine in Cambridge (SkyandTelescope.com). His Star Watch column appears the first Saturday of every month.One astronomical problem from the ancient world is that Claudius Ptolemy in Alexandria listed Sirius as one

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LexiLine : Message: 4 LexiLine 2010 The Star of Bethlehem 32 B.C.

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Google Earth Images Confirm Mythological Meteor Impact | Popular Science"Australian Aborigine mythology begins in a period known as the 'dream time', before the emergence of humanity. Many stories about the dream time include legends about stars, gods, or rocks falling from the sky. And new research utilizing Google Earth surveys of the outback show that many of those myths may actually be

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APOD: 2010 January 15 - Scenes from Two Hemispheres

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The sky above my town - Prehistorical Astronomy

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Themester's 'Footprints in the Stars' blends astronomy, American Indian sky lore: IU News Room: Indiana University

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Celestia 1.3.1 - a 3D real-time simulation of the galaxy and beyond Paul Rowlingson at vnunet.com writes about Celestia 1.3.1 that "Celestia offers a 3D simulation of the galaxy and beyond. Everything is simulated in real time, meaning that what you see is actually happening right now. Time can be speeded up, slowed down or even reversed, giving you a glimpse into the past or the future....

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Hamlet's Mill, Orion, Cursa, and Horvandillus One of the major books in the field of archaeoastronomy, broadly viewed, is the ca. 500-page book by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend entitled HAMLET'S MILL: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time, published by David R. Godine, Boston, 5th printing, 1999, ISBN 0-87923-215-3, LOC Catalog Card Number 69-13267. Hamlet's Mill is a book

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Ancient Egypt, the Sun, the Stars and the Calendar A New Inscribed Slab Found in Egypt Validates the Kaulins Chronology of Egypt and the Ancient World One of the most significant finds of ALL TIME for the chronology of the ancient world has recently been found. As you can read at the April 19, 2004 article "Ancient inscribed slab brought to light" at http://snipurl.com/60la http://

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Although people all tend to talk about the "Sothic Year", including yours truly, there is a subtle difference between the "Sothic Period" and the "Sothic Year". Here is what Duncan Steel writes in his book "Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar", John Wiley & Sons, 2000, p. 40: "...the Egyptian civil calendar followed a grand cycle with duration equal to what is know as

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The Feed Room has a live feed from NASA containing interviews and some great video coverage of the Spirit Rover on Mars. It also includes great video material on the Stardust Spacecraft built to examine the particles in the tail of Comet Wild 2. This is a superb example of the wonderful things we humans are able to achieve when we work together for a noble objective. It stands in stark contrast

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In a Yahoo science article by Pedro Braganca of SPACE.com entitledYahoo! News - The Night Sky from Mars!, Bragance points out that Starry Night Pro is software which can be used to take a virtual journey to Mars - the planet that is currently in the forefront of attention due to NASA probes arriving in January at that planet. Braganca's article also has a lot of general info on the Martian

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At the Berlin Blog under the title of "For the Love of Ouzo . . . What are you doing now?", we read: A terrific vacation destination is the Isle of Simi, a Greek Island within spitting distance of Turkey, where roosters outnumber people, you can see stars into the next galaxy, and the port is lined with 19th and early 20th Century Italian architecture. As you stroll along the waterfront, Greek

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I think the right way to start out this blog is to refer to my just published book: Stars Stones and Scholars: The Decipherment of the Megaliths as an Ancient Survey of the Earth by Astronomy by Andis Kaulins Trafford Publishing 420 pages; perfect bound; catalogue #03-1722; ISBN 1-4120-1344-5 Price: US$35.99, C$45.99, EUR29.99, £20.99 1. Go to http://www.trafford.com 2. Enter the Bookstore 3.

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Material on the History of Astronomy forthcoming.

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