Megalithic Calendar

[Boreades]

Just added to the TME map of the world: Angkor Wat

https://tme.carto.com/tables/the_megalithic_empire/map

Q. Why?
A. Because it has three key features in common with key TME locations.
1) Constructed on geodesic principals
2) Appearing to have a fractional latitude
3) Used to establish and maintain the calendar

As a reminder, other fractional latitude sites include:
Karnak (Thebes)
Amarna, Akhetaten
Delphi
Avebury

The Newark Great Circle Earthworks have also been added.

[Mick Harper]

I wish someone would tell me why calendars are important. What's wrong with counting up to 365, adding one every four years and then taking one off after a bit? If it's good enough for us ...

[Lucius Cannon]

[Mick Harper]

[Lucius Cannon]

[Mick Harper]

[Boreades]

[hvered]

Well, I suppose it was bound to happen some time. Later rather than sooner.

What is the earliest record of the Mayan calendar? As with megalithic sites themselves, there are missing links. The scholarship appears to be fairly recent, the work of nineteenth-century anthropologists/archaeologists. Do their studies overlap with those of egyptologists (and/or sinologists) or compartmentalised?

[Boreades]

[Mick Harper]

I appreciate English Heritage are a bunch of crass moneyers but it is difficult to see how else to organise these things. This year's Summer Outing is to Margate after your behaviour last year. Free alcohol and due diligence do not sit well together.