MYSTERY OF STONEHENGE AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH TIME

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for over 400,000 years. With the knowledge they amassed concerning the sun’s apparent path through the heavens, they worked back and verified, to within a few
and the period that elapsed before they were included in the modern method of measuring time is a piece of striking evidence in support of the claims of the

THE MYSTERY OF STONEHENGE AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH TIME This picture-diagram shows how the sun’s rays fell on the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge on midsummer morn 4000 years ago and in the beginning of the twentieth century. Sir Norman Lockyer roughly calculated that Stonehenge was erected 1700 years B.C., by calculating the divergence of the sun’s rays from the centre line through the Friar’s Heel Stone and the axis of the temple, the sun having shifted his apparent position, due to the tilting of the earth, which is known tq^be 48 seconds of an arc every century.
Babylonian star-gazers. There is even years, the solar position, such as would be
some truth in their contention that their indicated on a sun-dial.
astronomical calculations extended back The invention of a proper sun-dial was
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