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Pryhoryzontna observatory Bezvodivka

Pryhoryzontna observatory Bezvodivka

Ukraine has its own Stonehenge - pryhoryzontna Observatory in Bezvodivtsi Chernihiv region. On the territory of this village is missing group of ancient mounds.

Some have destroyed people and technology, and those remaining, the researchers described as funeral mounds nomadic 2-1 millennium BC.

Description pryhoryzontnoyi Observatory

Recently, through a combination of old topographic maps of the area with modern methods of research managed to unite the scattered mounds into one. Pryhoryzontna Observatory - a complex of earthen mounds, which covers an area of ​​about 20 square kilometers. Aerial Photography materials and computer programs made it possible to determine the destination together mounds.

If you stand in the center of the complex, you can see how the sun rises and sets on man-made hills in the days of the winter and summer solstice and equinox days that were specific to people since ancient times. And it is these days fall on major holidays of the year.

Bezvodivka - is an ancient observatory pryhoryzontna as English or German Stonehenge Hozek. Why it is called pryhoryzontnoyu? The answer is that movement on the horizon noted the points of sunrise and sunset, and other heavenly bodies and determine their patterns of movement on the celestial sphere. Bezvodivka a tool of incredible proportions, details of which are earth, sky and space objects. Determination of the solar and lunar cycles gave to ancient astronomers to calculate the date of the lunar and solar eclipses. Dimensions Observatory in Bezvodivtsi and the distance between its main viziers, which range from 800 to 4000 meters, talking about highly accurate azimuth measurements spawn points of the sun on the horizon.

Pryhoryzontna observatory - is not only interesting archaeological site What`s more - the proof of the existence of advanced civilization in what is now Ukraine thousand years ago. Its representatives have established ambitious project, organized by People for the construction and explored the universe available to them methods. Bezvodivka long kept their secrets under lock and key, but it is time to open the world`s knowledge of ancient astronomers.

How to get to the observatory

Bezvodivka can safely rename the Bezlyudivka: zero population is people. So hope that here you can take public transportation useless. From Ichnya to Bezvodivky - 8 kilometers. You can overcome this distance on foot or taxi. Pryhoryzontna Observatory is located one kilometer north of Bezvodivky. In Ichnyanskom museum staff will tell you a lot of interesting information about the "Ukrainian Stonehenge."

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