Namoratunga – Kenya’s Fascinating Megalithic Site Oriented Toward Specific Stars And Constellations

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – There is a fascinating and entirely different megalithic site known as Namoratunga. The site is located on the west side of Lake Turkana, in northwestern Kenya, and is known as Namoratunga II (or the Kalokol Pillar Site), which means “People of Stone”.

It has alignments of 19 basalt pillars that are nonrandomly oriented toward certain stars and constellations. Interestingly, the same stars and constellations are used by modern eastern Cushitic peoples to calculate an accurate calendar.

Namoratunga in Turkana, Kenya. Image credit: Darouet – CC BY-SA 4.0

The Kenyan ancient site dates to about 300 BC and it suggests that a prehistoric calendar based on detailed astronomical knowledge was in use in eastern Africa.

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