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Ancient altar excavated in China


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300-Foot-Wide Ancient Altar Excavated in China

In a remote corner of northwest China, a recently excavated 3,000-year-old sun altar offers clues to how the region's tribal cultures practiced religion thousands of years ago. The ruins were first discovered in 1993, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, but were not excavated until last year. Archaeologists can now confirm their initial suspicions that the site was used as a sun altar during the Bronze Age.

Read more: National Geographic

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More likely used as a gnomon (calendric device) and observatory ... and for mnemotechnical ritual (not 'worship'). Orthodox archaeologists still can't wrap their heads around the reality that everything ancient isn't either a temple or tomb ... and that ancient people had an advanced complex understanding of celestial mechanics dating back tens of thousands of years, for practical purpose.

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