Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy From Giza to Easter Island /

• Main Author: Magli, Giulio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Archaeology.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; History of Science.

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:

• 1
• Thirty thousand years of silence
• Forests of stones, rings of giants
• The island of the goddess
• A Civilization entitled to no place
• When the method is lacking
• Wheels, octagons and golf courses
• Straighr road , circle Buildings, and supernova
• The land where the god where born
• The tree of the world
• The four part of the Earth
• The People of the lines
• The last of the lands
• 2
• Apicnic on the side of the road
• Predidting the past
• Power and Replica
• 3
• The age of the Pyramides
• Gatway to the stars
• On the path of the Ancient Stars
• The scared landscape in the Age of the Pyrimid.