Depiction of the 19 years of the Metonic cycle as a wheel, with the Julian date of the Easter New Moon, from a 9th-century computistic manuscript made in St. Emmeram's Abbey (Clm 14456, fol. 71r) For astronomy and calendar studies, the Metonic cycle or Enneadecaeteris (from Ancient Greek words meaning "nineteen years") is a period of very close to 19 years … [Read more...]
Ancient Metrology – Numbers Don’t Lie
A. Sokolowski There is an underlying order in Cosmos. Our ancestors discovered it in ancient times and expressed it in their writings and monuments. This article is an invitation to all our visitor to explore and expand this subject. Please share facts that should be mentioned here (via comments and/or e-mail) - if you are aware of them. For example, many people today do … [Read more...]
Stick, Stones and the Zodiac
Stick, Stones and the Zodiac by Crichton Miller Breaking the Seals One ‘fictions’ history on the basis of a political reality that makes it true, one ‘fictions’ a politics not yet in existence on the basis of a historical truth. -- Michel Foucault [ad name="Adsense160x600_orange"] Modernity, as far as History is concerned, was a result of the … [Read more...]
Antikythera Mechanism – Reconstruction
Antikythera Mechanism WHEN a Greek sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck of a cargo ship (it is now accepted that the wreck occurred during the first century B.C.) off the tiny island of Antikythera in 1900, it was the statues lying on the seabed that made the greatest impression on him. He returned to the surface, removed his helmet, and gabbled that he had … [Read more...]
The Stonehenge Codes
The Stonehenge Codes - New Light on Ancient Knowledge by Professor David P Gregg (retired) A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY AND EXPLANATION Hello there and welcome to my analysis of Stonehenge…and the rest. No doubt you are wondering how I came to take it on… so am I. Some of it may have to do with my professional background and a life long … [Read more...]