[nickcarraway]

[freedumb2003]

PizzaHenge?

[BenLurkin]

Interesting.

[miss marmelstein]

Sicily! A crossroads of east and west. The greatest of Greek history as well as the high point of Islamic history (yes, it did exist). But are we now going back even further in time??

[bgill]

The author neglected to include a picture of the rocks.

[bunkerhill7]

A group of friends stumbled across an unusual arrangement of stones in Sicily which appear to be very large cement boots.

ther fixed it bada boom.

[Verginius Rufus]

6000 to 3000 BC seems a bit early to be Bronze Age...maybe Neolithic or Copper Age.

The Athenian tragic poet Aeschylus died in Gela in 456 B.C.

Among the ancient ruins found at Gela is a Hellenistic bath-house. Don't tell Barry.

[Verginius Rufus]

6000 to 3000 BC seems a bit early to be Bronze Age...maybe Neolithic or Copper Age.

The Athenian tragic poet Aeschylus died in Gela in 456 B.C.

Among the ancient ruins found at Gela is a Hellenistic bath-house. Don't tell Barry.

[glorgau]

Malta is well known for megaliths that pre-date Sonehenge. So, probably the same people did this.

[Leep]

The stone dial was sitting around for thousands of years and some just w stumbled not it?

[Leep]

The stone dial was sitting around for thousands of years and someone just now stumbled onto it?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Importantly, a solar sundial needs several features, the most important of which are two markers for the solstices. This really matters to archeologists for an odd reason.

The axial tilt of the Earth is not the same as it has always been. Earth’s axial tilt oscillates between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees on a 41,000-year cycle. It is currently decreasing.

So if the solar observatory is very old, its solstice points are further apart than they would be today, and because this change in axial tilt happens in a stable way, you can calculate when the observatory was built.

[Albion Wilde]

I made quite a few trips to every region of Italy when I was younger, and miss it all the time, but hate to travel now in Europe due to "the problem." I am really, really loving The Local. It's not qute what the DailyMail is to England, but it's still frequent and easily accessible online.