The Discovery Of The World 's Oldest Secret Observatory

“The Roswell Incident” Research Paper “Mysteries are due to secrecy” Francis Bacon this quote by Bacontells of how most mysteries form. For example if everyone told the truth openly not much would be unknown. Secrecy and mystery are involved in many aspects of what is known as “The Roswell Incident”. A UFO cover up or a harmless balloon are two of the major debated theories as to what crashed near roswell in 1947.

The ancient Egyptians could not have known this intersection when the architect designed the pyramids, yet the site chosen has the same number latitude and longitude. It was aliens, after studying the planet from afar, who implemented temples on this exact site.

Since the ancient times people have always been attracted to the unknown. Humans have always been curious about everything they have come across; How big is our earth?, how deep is the sea? Are there any other lands past the horizon?, and how big is our universe?. These types of questions have always led humans to forcefully exercise their minds into figuring them out.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “the sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” Emerson was a transcendentalist, transcendentalism came with a deep connection with nature from which this quote seems to be inspired. It can also be inferred that this quote has connections with the lord’s prayer, as Emerson was very religious. The lord’s prayer even states, “give us this day our daily bread” showing that God gave us necessities like food. By restating this in his essays, Emerson connects the sky with the daily food source by its beauty, and that we can feast upon what he believed the Lord had created for us in nature. Personally i am not all that religious and i don’t share the same transcendentalist beliefs with Emerson, but i wholeheartedly agree with his outlook on the sky as a feast of sorts.

Fig. 1 Statue of Yuny and Renenutet, ca. 1290–1270 BCE.; Fig. 2 Akhenaten and his Family,18

The Greeks were a civilization that have been admired and studied by historians for over hundreds of years before their tragic collapse. An extraordinary individual named Eratosthenes was born in a small Greek colony called Cyrene, he was a very talented Grecian who has a young man traveled to Athens to pursue studies. In all my years of reading about the ancient Greeks and studying geography, the name “Eratosthenes” had always come up. Taking AP Human Geography last year, my teacher was captivated by Eratosthenes and he would continuously state facts about him. But a unique statement struck me and could never leave my head. When talking about the earths tilt, latitude, and longitude he told us that someone over 2250 years ago, with only basic

According to researchers at the University of Texas, the dates of construction can be deciphered by counting tree rings from lumber used in building. There was also speculation around the arrangements of pueblos and other buildings in regards to the cosmos around us. As we can see in Cliff Palace and Sun Temple, they both have a clear line of vison with no other buildings interrupting its path. Because of their placement there is reason to believe that the Puebloan people incorporated astronomy into their architecture.

Many Observatories play a major role in discoveries in astronomy and navigation but none played such as an important role as the Royal Observatory Greenwich. The Royal observatory is one of the oldest observatories in the world and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The royal observatory opens in 1676 and was designed by Christopher wren.The Royal observatory was one of the most important observatories in the world.

From sometime in between 205-150 BC, an ancient ship carrying the Antikythera Mechanism and a bounty of Hellenistic bronze and marble sculptures, pottery, and silver coins sunk of the eastern coast of Antikythera Island in the Aegean Sea, waiting to be discovered until A.D.1901 by a team of divers. After a century of research, the intricate bronze set of gears has been determined to be an ancient Greek computer that is able to calculate astronomical events. Understanding the importance of the Mechanism and its significance is imperative as it is unarguably the most sophisticated geared machine from the ancient world. Up to the present day, the Mechanism remains influential toward researchers, historians, astronomers and archaeologists.

In the second millennium BCE astronomers in Babylon already knew about the circular motion of the sun and moon in the sky (Fig. 5.4) and about the Eastern concept of cyclical time. But the ancient image of the linear Time in Babylon and later in Greece, was supported by the observation of linear movement of the floats in water clocks (clepsydras) that were invariably used by all

As proposed in an article posted on amazing space.org, “The telescope, a basic reflector with a 94.5 in (2.4 meters) mirror.” While also having being a second mirror that the light bounces to to. Within that mirror, many instruments were compacted together that allowed for clear and visible views in infrared and ultraviolet light. It was different compared to any other ground based telescope whereas it allowed astronomers to observe and witness details that had never been seen before due to Earth being in the way for those other telescopes. The telescope revolves around the earth completely every ninety-seven minutes at the speed of five miles per second, allowing for many observations in space. The observations occur when light hits the main mirror and then bounces towards the second mirror in which the second one focuses the light. The telescope began to be created in 1977 and was originally supposed to launch during the year of 1985. Unfortunately an accident had occurred when a space shuttle challenger exploded and flights into space took a halt. It was finally launched on April 4th of 1990 once the halt had stopped. The improved observations had begun and the history of astronomy had changed. Unfortunately there were some minor setbacks that had to be dealt with. One setback was that the primary mirror was ground incorrectly in which the curve of it was too flat. It was off just

In 1609, Galileo Galilei, using “spyglass” which allowed one to see things closer than they appeared, made an early version of the telescope. With it, he observed the skies in a way no one had before. He discovered the moon isn’t perfectly globular, it has craters, the Sun has sunspots, Venus orbits the Sun (contrary to widespread belief in his time), and then he observed four “stars” around Jupiter (“Our Solar System”). Within

Since the beginning of recorded civilization, stars played a huge role in religion and proved vital to routing. The invention of the telescope, the discovery of the “laws of motion” and gravity in the 17th century prompted the

Since the first Egyptian farmers discovered the annual reappearance of Sirius just before dawn a few days before the yearly rising of the Nile, ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean have sought to explain the movements of the heavens as a sort of calendar to help guide them conduct earthly activities. Counting phases of the moon or observing the annual variations of day length could, after many years' collection of observations, serve as vital indicators for planting and harvesting times, safe or stormy season for sailing, or time to bring the flocks from winter to summer pastures. With our millennia of such observation behind us, we sometimes forget that seeing and recording anything less obvious than

Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, and astrological practices of pre-history: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy, and not completely disentangled from it until a few centuries ago in the Western World . In some cultures astronomical data was used for astrological prognostication.