Showing posts with label ancient solar observatories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ancient solar observatories. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

The orientation of the King's Knot of Stirling Castle

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Using SunCalc.net we can see the orientation of the King's Knot of the Stirling Castle with respect to sunset and sunrise on solst...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Castlerigg stone circle

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The stone circle at Castleriggis situated near Keswick in  Cumbria . One of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany ,...

SunCalc at the Hardknott Roman Fort

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As told by its owner (Vladimir Agafonkin), SunCalc is an app that shows sun movement and sunlight phases during the given day at the given l...

Suncalc and ancient Sun

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In a recent paper, entitled " Was Lepenski Vir an ancient Sun or Pleiades observatory? ", the authors Vladan Pankovic, Milan Mrdj...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Solstices at the Hardknott Roman Fort

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A roman fort in Britannia, a specific orientation to solstices More at  SSRN Solstices at the Hardknott Roman Fort Amelia Ca...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Solar orientation of Ales Stenar

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Ales Stenar and the direction of the sun during the day as given by sollumis.com, on the Winter and Summer solstices. The image shows a g...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

On Ancient Chinese Towns

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Sculpture of lion with three cubs from Dadu, discovered underneath the Ming era city wall, now on display in the Beijing Stone Carving ...
Friday, September 21, 2012

Ancient solar observatories: Stonehenge

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This is Stonehenge. The image shows directions of sun during the day. “The lines on the drawing show the direction and height (altitud...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Ancient solar observatories: Syrian desert

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The Syrian desert is covered by ancient stone structures created during Neolithic times, as I discussed in the paper, Stone circles on the h...