7 Nisan 2009 Salı

Babylon

Babylonian Tablet

Maya


The hole where the Earth is joined with the sky according to the contemporary Maya of Yalcobá, Yucatán.Credit: J. R. Sosa, ‘Cosmological, Symbolic and Cultural Complexity Among the Contemporary Maya of Yucatan,' in A. F. Aveni (editor), World Archaeoastronomy, Cambridge, 1989, 130142: 140 Figure 9. 10

Archaeoastronomy in the American Southwest

Fajada at winter solstice. Photo by Rolf Sinclair, Chevy Chase, MD

Fajada at summer solstice, June 21st. Photo by Bryan Bates

Fajada at equinox. Photo by Rolf Sinclair, Chevy Chase, MD