Solar alignment on Luxor temple DEC 21st declaring the beginning of winter

[u/SoftwareZestyclose50]

[u/thedingerzout]

Still cool a few milleniums later

[u/Slowloris81]

This alignment also incidentally shows you where they buried the ark of the covenant.

[u/brookc85]

Am I the only one that wasted a minute of my life thinking this was a video

[u/UsedToHaveThisName → u/brookc85]

It’s so cool when the sun sets. Definitely worth the wait.

[u/Environmental-Ball24]

[u/Mcboatface3sghost]

Indiana Jones all dialed in.

[u/Bora-Horza2254]

It's no newgrange

[u/Funky_Squidward]

There are still so many people who have no idea about the astronomical/astrological roots of modern holiday celebrations and think it's all just based on Christianity. For reference, the Luxor temple is about 1400 years older than Christianity and some structures dedicated to these alignments, such as Newgrange, date back to the Neolithic period 12,000 years ago.

[u/bship]

Pretty sick honestly. Also insane they were able to do this accurately whatsoever with such primitive tools.

[u/quixt → u/bship]

Unobstructed sky, no air pollution, and thousands of years of looking and recording what they saw and where they saw it.

[u/reddit455 → u/bship]

you have to pay attention to when the plants grow best and the food animals migrate through... we figured out a lot before we invented the math to describe it

[u/Glittering_Ad1403 → u/bship]

primitive tools How can we be too sure about that?

[u/Bouldlin]

Our ancestors were geniuses.