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Star-Struck by Ancient Astronomy - Dirt 142

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People in the past looked up at the stars and planets, too. How did ancient cultures perceive the night sky? How did they explain the movement of celestial bodies? How did astronomy figure into ancient religion, calendars, city planning, and more? Was it aliens? Nope, but it was pretty much all math. Sorry.

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  • Celestial Fertility Guide (Science)
  • GIFs Show Constellations Transforming Over 150,000 Years (Wired)
  • The world's oldest observatory? How Aboriginal astronomy provides clues to ancient life (ABC)
  • Nabta Playa: The World's First Astronomical Site Was Built in Africa and Is Older Than Stonehenge (Discover)
  • Nabta Playa and Its Role in Northeastern African Prehistory (Journal of Anthropological Archaeology)
  • Megaliths and Neolithic astronomy in southern Egypt (Nature)
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  • The History of Trigonometry- Part 1 (NRICH)
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  • July 4, 1054: Crab Nebula Makes a Spectacular Debut in the Heavens (Wired)
  • The Dunhuang Star Atlas (International Dunhuang Project)
  • Book copied on silk, Divination by Astrological and Meteorological Phenomena (Hunan Museum)
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