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Archaeologists Discovered The Remains Of A Large 2,500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Astronomical Observatory Used To Track The Movement Of The Sun And The Stars
The sundial was made up of a limestone slab ... stated that the recent findings demonstrated the "ingenuity and skill" of the ancient Egyptians' abilities to study astronomy.
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'Everything we found shattered our expectations': Archaeologists discover 1st astronomical observatory from ancient Egypt
This figure symbolizes the ancient Egyptians' connection to the cosmos ... But it was the discovery of a huge sundial — along ...
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Chaldean Sundial, Greece, 320 BCE
The inventions of the hemispherium and the hemicyclium are attributed to Berosus (356-323 BCE), a Chaldean priest and astronomer who brought these types of sundials to Greece. Both dials use the shape ...
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Method of Construction
Our sundial consists of an engraved, concave hemisphere carved into poured concrete, at the center of which is a vertical pin to cast the shadow. To build this sundial we needed to first make a mold ...