#AncientAstronomy

2025-06-02

Prosciutto! Sundial! In! The! News! Claxon!

livescience.com/archaeology/ro

It's Kristina Killgrove on Christopher Parslow's 2024 book from OUP, which gives the "first comprehensive account of the history and reception of the prosciutto sundial since its rediscovery in 1755 to modern times ... and provides findings from the author's 3D model that confirm the sundial's overall accuracy in real-world testing" : global.oup.com/academic/produc

#ancientAstronomy #archaeology

2025-04-16

The Intihuatana is an ancient Incan stone structure found at various archaeological sites, with the most famous one being at Machu Picchu. It was believed to be a ceremonial stone used for astronomical purposes, particularly for observing the sun's movements. The name "Intihuatana" translates to "hitching post of the sun.
Source:andeanperudiscover.com/en/

PraveenMohanPraveenMohan
2024-08-29

This Mysterious ‘Wall Device’ Can Calculate Everything? Jantar Mantar Part 2
Watch full video : youtu.be/OaYVWRIfmts

PraveenMohanPraveenMohan
2024-08-20

The Surprising Origin of Telescope
A strange device called the 'Dhruva Darshak Yantra' is found in an astronomical observatory called Jantar Mantar. Is it possible that this is the world's first telescope?
Watch full video : youtu.be/YLCz8_yA-T8

2024-01-18

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Archaeologists have discovered a 2,400-year-old stone map of the night sky in Italy. The map shows 29 stars carved on a circular stone, including Orion, Scorpius and Pleiades. The map is very accurate, except for one mysterious star that might have been a supernova or a black hole. 🌠🌠🌠

#starmap #ancientastronomy #supernova

msn.com/en-us/news/technology/

2023-11-08

New in the our #ISAWNYU open journal:

Huber, Peter J. “Third Millennium BC Chronology and Clock-Time Correction.” ISAW Papers 25 (2023). hdl.handle.net/2333.1/0cfxq1g1.

"The astronomical data available for fixing the third millennium BC Mesopotamian chronology are precarious. But surprisingly, if taken at face value they yield unique coherent chronologies for the Dynasties of Akkad and Ur III (about 50 years higher than ..."

#ancientHistory #ancientChronology #ancientMesopotamia #ancientAstronomy

David Meyerdmm@mas.to
2022-11-08

Here's a topic I haven't seen discussed of here (yet): the #AntikytheraMechanism.

How the ancient Greeks conceived of (much less fabricated) the Mechanism is, well, a mystery.

I made some notes about this fantastic device here: davidmeyer.github.io/astronomy.

The #LaTeX source is here: overleaf.com/read/ndpvkytkhmbv.

As always, questions/comments/corrections/* greatly appreciated. #ancientastronomy #astronomy #LaTeX

Michael Wright's scheme for turning the Metonic pointer in the Antikythera Mechanism.
2022-09-23

Psyched to be listening in on another ISAW/NYU dissertation defense! This time Christine Roughan on "The Little Astronomy and Middle Books between the 2nd and 13th Centuries CE”.

#AncientHistory #AncientAstronomy #Greek #Arabic #Syriac #Latin #AncientPedagogy #BookHistory #ManuscriptTransmission #Philology

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