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Ill-Manufacturer8654 t1_j6p5nmi wrote

I mean, it's been discredited for a long time now.

For the most part, if you hear about some famous archaeological site aligning with such and such a constellation, it's almost certainly a load of crap. This sort of thing was popular with pseudoscientists back in the day, and it just sort of caught on.

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ktempest t1_j6p85k3 wrote

Erm, sorry to break out to you, friend, but you're wrong on this one. Not about the Orion theory - it doesn't hang together for the same reason you're wrong about other sites.

In ancient Egypt they did align certain buildings to certain constellations. But by align I mostly mean they made it so you could see certain stars or constellations through an opening, a window, a hole in the ceiling, etc. It's part of the way they kept time and also because the buildings usually had a connection to a celestial body relating to the spiritual purpose.

In Egypt, the civilization lasted so long that they had to shift some temples, foundation and all, to re-align with the correct stars as precession moved them after a couple thousand years. This is a known fact. Ask any archaeoastronomer.

Thing is, the Orion theory of the stars on the belt aligning really only works if one messes with how a human would look at the stars. The pictures in the book are weird.

Other ancient civilizations also did the constellation alignment thing as well as aligning to solstice or equinox sunrises/sunsets, and also tracking Venus.

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Ill-Manufacturer8654 t1_j6p952h wrote

I'm not, no.

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ktempest t1_j6pdj0k wrote

Yeah, you are. As I stated, ask any archaeoastronomer. Literally folks who study the ancient stars and how ancient cultures studied and related to them. Hell, ask any Egyptologist. This isn't some controversial theory from the ancient aliens people, this is accepted in academia.

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PaleontologistDry430 t1_j6p9moh wrote

Archaeoastronomy exists... It is well known the use of architechtonic edifications to mark positions in sky and time, like the "group E" in Mayan sites.

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ktempest t1_j6pfamu wrote

They just dismissed an entire field of study!

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