ANCIENT ASTRONOMY CIVILIZATION

CHICHEN ITZA TEMPLE

• temple has 365 steps—one for each day of the year.
• Location is in Mexico near a small town Piste
• The maya's bulit it
• Its significant to astronomy because they could predict a solor eclipse
• Buit around A.D. 750 to 1200.

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STONEHENGE

• Neolithic builders an estimated 1,500 years to erect.
• southern England on Salisbury Plain.
• Possibly site of miracle healing or a burial ground
• an astronomical observatory to mark the winter solstice.
• And it was also alined with the sun setting

ANGKOR WAT

• Constructed in the early 12th century (between 1113 and 1150)
• It is a religous monument
• Translated the name of it is "city temple"
• It was built in cambodia and was bluit by Khmer
• They made it"parallel to the lunar and solar axis in lenght wise.

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BIG HORN MEDICINE WHEET

• Bighorn Range in Wyoming
• Its a Native American construction
• It shows the rise and set place of the Sun at summer solstice
• They created it to recored the suns action/movement.

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CARACOL TEMPLE

• Around as early as 1200 BC.
• Located south of the town of San Ignacio
• Its on high grounds and was over populated
• Chichen Itza built it
• It was used to track the sun the moon and Venus

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MACHU PICHU TEMPLE OF THE SUN

• It was a solar observatory
• They used it for scarificing things
• Located in Peru
• Incas built it
• Built in 15th-century

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EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS

• The pyramid possibly represented the rays of the sun
• They had baried bodies in them

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TEOTIHUACAN PYRAMID OF THE SUN

• Its in Teotihuacan
• original purpose of the Pyramid of the Sun is unknown,
• It is said to believe that is was an altar
• They aslo used it for ritual.
• Its significant because

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DZIBILCHALTUN TEMPLE OF THE 7 DOLLS

• it is a square substructure that once was a monumental temple.
• this is where they could observe the sky (solar phenomenon).
• Mayan's(sun god)would shine through the gates of the temple on the first days of spring and autumn.
• And it is located between Merida and Progresso in Mexico
• It is significant to Astronomy becuase the use it to determine when the seasons changed

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