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The rising Sun illuminates the inner chamber of Newgrange, Ireland, only at the winter solstice.. Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the interdisciplinary [1] or multidisciplinary [2] study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used these phenomena and what role the sky played in their cultures". [3]
48 Republic of Ireland. 49 Israel and Palestine. 50 Italy. 51 Japan. 52 Jordan. 53 Kazakhstan. 54 Korea. ... 88 South Africa. 89 Spain. 90 Sri Lanka. 91 Sultanate of ...
Stonehenge's latitude ( 51° 10′ 44″ N ) is unusual in that only at this approximate latitude (within about 50 km) do the lunar and solar alignments mentioned above occur at right angles to one another. More than 50 km north or south of the latitude of Stonehenge, the station stones could not be set out as a rectangle.
The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland is a learned society based in Ireland, whose aims are "to preserve, examine and illustrate all ancient monuments and memorials of the arts, manners and customs of the past, as connected with the antiquities, language, literature and history of Ireland". Founded in 1849, it has a countrywide membership ...
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South Africa has taken a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing it of a genocide in Gaza. Ireland’s intervention is expected to focus on prioritising the ...
David Lewis-Williams (born 1934) South African; cognitive archaeology, Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art Edward Lhuyd (1660–1709) Welsh; Britain Li Feng (born 1962) Chinese/American; early China Yinxu and Yangshao culture
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