When the Sky Explained Everything - Issue 11: Light
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Dr. Edwin C. Krupp has spent more than 40 years researching how ancient cultures worshipped and studied the parade of celestial lights—the movement of the sun, moon, planets, and stars—to make sense of seasonal cycles on Earth. An “archaeoastronomer,” who studies the early history of astronomy, Krupp has written five books and visited more than 1,900 historic and prehistoric sites associated with the sky. From the ancient Egyptians, who built monuments aligned with the annual rising of the bright star Sirius, to the New World’s Incas, who constructed temples positioned to track the sun, people have been guided by the heavens, telling stories about the sky that not only brought a sense of order to their lives but ultimately led to the development of modern astronomy, Krupp notes. Since (...)