Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy From Giza to Easter Island /

• Main Author: Magli, Giulio. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Physics.; Science > History.; Astronomy.; Archaeology.; History of Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76566-2

This complete, authoritative study of the growing discipline of archaeoastronomy examines the role of astronomy in antiquity. Professor Guilio Magli provides a clear, up-to-date survey of current thinking on the motives of the ancients for building fabulous and mysterious monuments all over our plan...

Table of Contents:

• Thirty Thousand Years of Silence
• Forests of Stones, Rings of Giants
• The Island of the Goddess
• A Civilization Entitled to No Place
• When Method Is Lacking
• Wheels, Octagons and Golf Courts
• Straight Roads, Circular Buildings and a Supernova
• The Land where the Gods Were Born
• The Tree of the World
• The Four Parts of the Earth
• The People of the Lines
• The Last of the Lands
• A Picnic on the Side of the Road
• Predicting the Past
• Power and Replica
• The Age of the Pyramids
• Gateway to the Stars
• On the Paths of the Ancient Stars
• The Sacred Landscape in the Age of Pyramids. Appendix 1: The Sky with the Naked Eye
• Appendix 2: Moving Large Stone Blocks in Ancient Times
• References
• Index.