![]() ![]() On our planet, solstices are defined by solar declination-the latitude of Earth where the sun is directly overhead at noon. If it marked the beginning of a agriculture system, what if they missed that day.A solstice is an event in which a planet’s poles are most extremely inclined toward or away from the star it orbits. It would be naïve to think that no one would boast of their selves and their capability of building such a monumental structure of important knowledge.Ĥ. If it was so important to them, why is there no findings of how or why. If people of the world all knew how, why, with what type of rock, how to align these structures exactly to the solstices, with humongous stones that they could have easily used smaller ones. But not one on how, when or why these ancient sites around world were built. There are many ancient scripts, stone tablets, drawings, rock paintings etc of daily life, wars, laws, ancient historical events, deaths, conquests etc. It seems they all had the same knowledge that we do not know about.ģ. This is not specific to one or a few sites. They easily could have built their site closer but around the world, specific types of rock were needed and specific spaces were chosen for what purpose. The site chosen for these ancient structures were far a away from the type of rocks needed. It was so important to them that they had to transport a certain type of rock to make these structures. Why was it so important to use the same rocks when constructing these sites. ![]() I am baffled by these ancient sites around the world and have questions if anyone knows plausible answers.ġ. And tell us how you celebrate the seasons! Have you traveled to these ancient sites? Follow the links above to visit virtually. Mark the equinoxes and solstices! See our seasons page with dates for the start of spring, summer, fall, and winter. At this angle, the Sun also sits at the southern corner of the Pyramid of Khafre, located behind the Sphinx. If you stand directly in front of the Sphinx (facing it) at sunset on the date of either equinox, as the Sun nears the horizon, you’ll observe it settle directly onto the Sphinx’s right shoulder. On the spring or fall equinoxes, a peculiar phenomenon occurs. The famous pyramids and Sphinx of Ancient Egypt also have their time in the Sun, so to speak. The Great Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre (Egypt) The room holds only twenty people at a time.Įvery year, thousands enter a lottery in hope of being one of the hundred people allowed to enter. Today, the knoll is called Newgrange.įor five days around the winter solstice, a beam of sunlight illuminates a small room inside the mound for 17 minutes at dawn. Newgrange (Ireland)Īround 3200 B.C., ancient people in Ireland built a huge mound of dirt and surrounded it with stones. In this canyon is a petroglyph called the Sun Dagger because of the way the Sun’s wedge-shape beams strike it in midday during the summer and winter solstices. In today’s Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, the Ancestral Puebloan people, who were expert sky watchers, carved spiral designs into rock to track the seasons and record the passage of time. Mayans called this day “the return of the Sun serpent.” See more photos of this incredible pyramid at the Chichen Itza Web site. On the spring equinox, for example, the light pattern looks like a snake. The play of the Sun’s light on it signals the beginning of the seasons. Chichen Itza (Mexico)Īt what is now Chichen Itza (“ CHEE-chen EET-sa”), Mexico, Mayans built a huge pyramid around the year A.D. However, at exactly noon on the date of the spring or fall equinox, the Sun’s shadow disappears! Therefore, the stone is a precise indicator of the date of the two equinoxes. Usually, the stone casts a shadow throughout the day, as any other structure would. There is a giant stone at the top of this sacred mountain called Intihuatana, which means “the place when the sun gets tied.” Amazingly, the stone is perfectly positioned so that each corner sits at the four cardinal points (north, south, east, and west), and at an angle of about 13 degrees northward. This archaeological site is perched atop a mountain overlooking the Urubamba Valley in Peru. Machu Picchu is the transcendent City of the Incas. See photos and historical details on the Stonehenge Web site. ![]() On the dawning of the summer solstice, the sun rises directly above the Heel Stone-a mysterious prehistoric monument whose origins, depending on interpretation, were as an ancient burial ground, an astrological observatory, even a supernatural phenomenon. The huge monument marks the relation between the Sun and the seasons. Stonehenge (England)Įvery year on the summer solstice, thousands of people travel to Wiltshire, England, to Stonehenge, a place with huge stones that were arranged in a circle around 3000 B.C. Our ancestors built the first observatories to track the sun’s progress. First Day of Spring 2023: The Spring Equinox ![]()
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