Mircea Eliade (1992) argued that a single view of the starry celestial vault would be sufficient to awake a religious experience. This idea is as true today as...
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PublicationFinding Our Place in the Cosmos: The Role of Astronomy In Ancient Cultures
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PublicationIn search of cosmic order: Astronomy and culture in Ancient Egypt
Over the past five years, the Egyptian-Spanish Mission on the archaeoastronomy of ancient Egypt and its collaborators has been performing an ambitious...
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PublicationON THE ORIENTATION OF EARLY BRONZE AGE TOMBS IN ANCIENT MAGAN
Orientation studies have recently received considerable attention in the archaeological domain as a source of information that may shed light on a number of...
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PublicationOn the Orientation of Thracian Dolmens
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PublicationOn the orientations of Sardinian nuraghes: some clues to their interpretation
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PublicationOrientation of TRB-West megalithic monuments
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PublicationPetra Revisited: An Astronomical Approach to the Nabataean Cultic Calendar
Petra, the ancient Nabataean capital, has been one of our main research objectives since the first field campaign on site in 1996.1 In December 2015 a new visit...
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PublicationTemples of Astarte across the Mediterranean
We present a compilation of orientations of seven temples dedicated to the Phoenician goddess Astarte across the Mediterranean. The chronology of the earliest...
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NewsThe autumnal equinox from the Dolmen of Valdecaballeros
Next Tuesday, September 22nd, at 13:30 UT the Earth will be at a specific point in its orbit round the Sun: the September equinox. The September and March...