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Pyramid aligned to winter solstice

8 May 2013
Archaeology

At http://news.yahoo.com/stunning-astronomical-alignment-found-peru-pyramid… … an alignment, marked by a trail of stones (geoglyphs), runs 2km from the pyramid as people descended down the valley from the highlands. At the time of the winter solstice the pyramid and the setting Sun line up so that the Sun appears to actually sink down behind, or into, the pyramid.

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