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The sky the ancients watched — precession, constellations, the Sun, Venus and the archaeoastronomy of their monuments.
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- Archaeoastronomy Archaeoastronomy is the interdisciplinary study of how ancient and pre-modern cultures observed the sky, encoded that knowledge in their architecture…
- Astrobiology Astrobiology is the scientific study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe, drawing on astronomy, biology,…
- Carl Jung Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) was the Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology — the tradition of the collective unconscious, the…
- Graham Hancock Graham Hancock (b. 1950) is a British writer and journalist, the most widely read proponent of the thesis that a technologically sophisticated…
- Great Month The Great Month is the unit of time corresponding to one-twelfth of the precessional Great Year — the period required for the vernal equinox point to…
- Great Sphinx The Great Sphinx of Giza is a colossal limestone monument — a recumbent lion with a human head — carved from the bedrock of the Giza plateau and…
- Great Year The Great Year is the period of one complete cycle of axial precession — the time the Earth's rotational axis takes to trace one full cone against…
- Jane Sellers Jane B. Sellers was an American Egyptologist whose The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt (1992) applied the Hamlet's Mill precessional method to a…
- List of megalithic sites A reference catalogue of megalithic sites of the ancient world — large stone structures whose construction features, dating, or astronomical…
- Mazzaroth Mazzaroth (Hebrew מַזָּרוֹת) appears exactly once in the Hebrew Bible — at Job 38:32 — and its meaning was already lost by the time of the earliest…
- Orion Correlation The Orion Correlation is the thesis, developed by the engineer Robert Bauval, that the three great pyramids of Giza are a ground-map of the three…
- Precession Precession is the steady cyclical change in the orientation of Earth's rotational axis, traced as a slow circular motion of the celestial poles…
- Tauroctony The tauroctony (Greek tauroktonos, 'bull-slayer') is the central cult image of Roman Mithraism: the god Mithras plunging a dagger into a bull,…
- The Tradition The Tradition (French la Tradition; Hebrew shalshelet ha-Kabbalah, 'chain of Tradition') is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the cross-cultural…
- Wheel of Heaven Wheel of Heaven is a curated comparative knowledge project — both the name of an interpretive framework and the corpus that articulates it — centered…
- World Age A World Age (also Precessional Age, Astrological Age, or Great Month) is one of twelve roughly 2,160-year intervals that make up the Great Year, the…
- Zodiac The Zodiac (Greek: ζῳδιακὸς κύκλος, zōidiakos kyklos, 'circle of small figures') is the band of sky about 8° on either side of the ecliptic — the…
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- Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth
- Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization
- Almagest
- The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind
- Echoes of the Ancient Skies: The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations
- From Petra back to Makka — From ‘Pibla’ back to Qibla