MessageToEagle.com – While examining ancient astronomical symbols, scientists found evidence that confirm a comet swarm struck the Earth around 11,000 B.C. During this event, many large animal species
MessageToEagle.com – Scientists are now studying ancient astronomical events to gain more knowledge about auroras and other celestial phenomena. Many historical records that were previously labeled fiction are now
Thalia Lightbringer – MessageToEagle.com – Many people gather every year to celebrate the spring equinox at Stonehenge, but did you know there is something similar, but older, in Egypt?
MessageToEagle.com – Our ancestors were fascinated with the night sky. They watched the movements of celestial bodies, observed solar and moon eclipses and created calendars based on their astronomical
MessagetoEagle.com – Ancient Babylonians were excellent astronomers who wrote down their observations on cuneiform tablets. By studying ancient records of lunar and solar eclipses carved in clay tablets, dating
MessageToEagle.com – The earliest known star map in Egypt was discovered more than eighty years ago and represent a main part of the tomb’s decoration; inside the tomb,
MessageToEagle.com – Why has our week 7 days? The length of our day, month, and year is based on astronomical observations. However, why we have a seven-day week
MessageToEagle.com – Astronomical tradition of ancient China was an important part the country’ cultural tradition and dates back to the Bronze Age and 1800 BC. Through the millennia,
A. Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com – A gnomon, (literally: “one that knows or examines”) is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow. The term has been used
MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have reason to think that an ancient 4000-year-old stone monolith in England was likely an astronomical calendar. The 2.2 meter high monument, located in the Peak
MessageToEagle.com – Ancient stargazers used 6,000-year-old tombs to set calendar dates and watch the heavens thousands of years before Galileo Galilei. Astronomers are exploring what might be described
MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have long tried the unravel the mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,000-year-old amazing encrusted bronze object of undetermined use found on the small island
MessageToEagle.com – There are about 3,600 known prehistoric grooves on stones scattered throughout the island of Gotland in Sweden. As many as 700 of them are scored directly
MessageToEagle.com – Filled with colorful aillustrations, the Poetica Astronomica, usually called the Hyginu’s Star Atlas is one of the first books to feature constellations and mythology behind them.
Question: What is a Torquetum? Answer: A torquetum was a complex and sophisticated Medieval astronomical instrument used to measure the three sets of astronomical coordinates: horizon, equatorial, and
Ellen Lloyd – MessageToEagle.com – In the distant past, people in Brazil raised fascinating megalithic structures that are still shrouded in mystery. One intriguing monument is Calçoene, also called
MessageToEagle.com – What was a merkhet? A merkhet was an ancient Egyptian timekeeping instrument used for telling time at night. This star clock was extremely accurate and could
Question: What is the current Chinese calendar called? Answer: In ancient China there were many different calendars. The current Chinese calendar was defined by Emperor Wu of the
MessageToEagle.com – A great number of archaeological sites and prehistoric monuments have revealed alignments towards celestial events that played an important role in life of many ancient cultures in
MessageToEagle.com – A Tacoma researcher says the Antikythera Mechanism, an engineering marvel salvaged from a Roman shipwreck, dates to 205 B.C. The shoebox-sized chunk of bronze didn’t attract
MessageToEagle.com – The Nimrud lens is 3,000 year-old object that could re-write the history of science. Although, the telescope was officially invented in the 16th century, it is possible
MessageToEagle.com – A controversial Bronze Age disc known as the Nebra Sky Disc is one of the most fascinating and perhaps some would say, disputable archaeological finds of recent
MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists revealed they have discovered what could be the world’s oldest calendar created by hunter-gatherer societies and dating back to around 8,000 BC. The lunar calendar was
