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'Everything we found shattered our expectations': Archaeologists discover 1st astronomical observatory from ancient Egypt
An Egyptian archaeological team discovered the ... But it was the discovery of a huge sundial — along with several ...
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Archaeologists Discovered The Remains Of A Large 2,500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Astronomical Observatory Used To Track The Movement Of The Sun And The Stars
The discovery was made by the Egyptian archaeological mission of the ... In the observatory, archaeologists found a sloping stone sundial. The instrument, also known as a sloping shadow clock ...
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Chaldean Sundial, Greece, 320 BCE
The inventions of the hemispherium and the hemicyclium are attributed to Berosus (356-323 BCE), a Chaldean priest and astronomer who brought these types of sundials to Greece. Both dials use the shape ...