Telescopes to View Stars in Ancient Tombs
Editorials News | Aug-22-2016
Nearly 6,000 years ago, stone constructions built as tombs may have served the purpose to watch the skies, millennia before telescopes were invented as per a new research. Astronomers propose that these ancient structures may have been used to track the movements of the stars.
Researchers are in the process of investigating whether these so-called “megalithic” tombs provided visual opportunities for humans and acted as ‘telescopes’ without lenses. Scientists are having a look at the passage graves, a type of tomb with a large hall accessed through a long and narrow entry tunnel. This type of formation could have significantly improved views of dim stars as they rose on the dawn horizon.
The Royal Astronomical Society met in the
In a statement form the society it is stated that the Seven-Stone Antas, a 6,000 year old monolithic cluster in central
According to the ancient societies these passage graves are believed to be sacred spaces. Besides housing the dead, the tombs’ inner chamber would for a while host living persons, who would spend the night inside the structures’ wall as part of a rite of passage.
Astronomers are investigating the ways that how early cultures used cosmology and offers insights into how they understood the world around them. Astronomy was a part of a holistic experience of life and environment and sky.
Scientists targets how the human eye, without the aid of any telescope device, can see stars given sky brightness and color.
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