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Hi Kristin, It's hard to say how many sites around the world may have been used as solar observatories. There are some really famous sites that have solar connections, such as Stonehenge in England and Chichen Itza in Mexico. But there are many ancient sites that have not yet been studied for possible...

michele s what ancient obervatories can we visit in the united states, or are there any?

Hi Brian, Observation, observation, observation. The people who built ancient sites such as Stonehenge in England or Chichen Itza in Mexico were careful observers of the skies. They would observe the motions of the Sun, moon, stars and planets over long periods of time. We know that some cultures, such...

Good question! Some of the earliest human habitation sites show evidence that the people studied the moon. For example, the Lascaux Cave site in France has paintings that are over 15,000 years old. The paintings show a deer with a series of dots that may represent each night of the moon's phase....

Kassandra S How many sites around teh world have been identified as actual ancient observatories, and did they just studyt he sun, or other objects? thanks

Hi Carol I haven't been there, but I'd sure love to go... I looked at the Wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines ) and there doesn't seem to be much evidence that the figures were any kind of observatory..solar or otherwise.... But who knows what we'll learn in the...

Hi Larry, The Moon was important to the Inca people and was known as the wife of the Sun. Both of these, the Sun and Moon, were said to have originated from Lake Titicaca, on the border between Peru and Bolivia. The Sun came from the island of Titicaca (now called Island of the Sun), the Moon from the...

Chris W (Fox) Is there any evidence to suggest that the ancient artifacts, or huge sculptures on easter island in the pacific ocean could have been used to study the skies or sun? thank you.

Have any of you been to Newgrange in Ireland? If so, were you there during a solar alignment? I heard it is 1000 years older than Stonehenge! I wonder what they were trying to do with it. BT