Echoes of the Ancient Skies: The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations

By E.C. Krupp

Book Overview

Popular, authoritative look at the world of archaeoastronomy, the study of ancient peoples' observation of the skies and its role in their cultural evolution. 208 illustrations. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Unknown Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060151013
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Meticulous research.

The author visited and studied megalithic sites all over Europe, the Near East and North and South Americas. By careful measurement and observation he illustrates astronomical alignments built in to these sites. Black and white photos and drawings abound. This is a clear, thorough and extensive survey of archaeo-astronomy. He misses some alignments that later work has uncovered, such as the Venus alignment at Newgrange (Uriel's Machine by Knight and Lomas), but this book does justice to an interesting field. A must read for people interested in the civilizations of pre-history.