African Cosmos: Stellar Arts shows how the sun, moon, stars, and the phenomena of lightning and rainbows inspired the arts of Africa for thousands of years.
We have all experienced the wonder of gazing at a night sky filled with stars. Our imaginations take flight. We journey to the heavens, inspired by its majesty, and we recall stories about the constellations shining from above. Since the time of the ancient Egyptians, Africans have used their celestial observations to chart their movements through the land and to create their agricultural and ritual calendars.
One of the world’s earliest “calendars” is found at Nabta Playa in southern Egypt, where standing stones mark star alignments and the summer solstice. The site dates some 7,000 years ago, more than a millennium before Stonehenge in England.
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gurudev16
6/21/2012 1:57 AM GMT+0200
…a site near the border of Egypt and Sudan where stone circles and sun dials date back nearly 6,000 years a thousand years before Stonehenge in Britain. ” Wow…okay, I’m in. Sounds like must see TV. It still shocks me, all the things Africans were accused of not being capable of being “rediscovered” A monstrous lie and fraud has been perpetrated.