Ancient Observatories
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Author's Game Description
These 30 archaeological sites had (or may have had) astronomical significance.
Map by Pietro Calogero.
Category: Science Games
Created by tickman, 28 Oct, 2009
Tags: archaeology, Astronomy, History, science
6 ratingsPlayed 318 times | 1 Fav's
Sunny1 1 week ago
paulfunI 2 weeks ago
Ale's stenar (stones) are beautifully situated by the very south of the Swedish coast. I can recommend it to every Swedish-minded tourist. Nice game, tickman!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Ales_stenar_bred.jpg
Ps, There's a nice beach below these white cliffs of Kåseberga, with hardly no people visiting. (All swimmers are in Ystad, two miles to the west).
asae 3 weeks ago
Fantastic game, very interesting!
tickman 3 weeks ago
I must note that the astronomical significance of some of these is more established than that of others. Of course we can't ask the builders: they're all dead.
tickman 3 weeks ago
Data from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archaeoastronomical_sites_sorted_by_country
The map comes from here originally:
http://calogero.us/Geography/WorldLands/Map.html
and has a GNU Free Documentation License (GPL).
Details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License
Special thanks to Slaaty, who modified the map and provided me the version I use here.
| Highscores — Ancient Observatories | Place 1 - 10 | |||
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| Player Name | Score | Time | Date of Play | |
| 1 | Eoin | 100% | 0:28.4 min. | 5 Nov, 2009 |
| 2 | asae | 100% | 0:29.0 min. | 5 Nov, 2009 |
| 3 | oxphos | 100% | 0:31.5 min. | 5 Nov, 2009 |
| 4 | juggledan | 100% | 0:32.8 min. | 2 Nov, 2009 |
| 5 | Arturo | 100% | 0:32.8 min. | 5 Nov, 2009 |
| 6 | BoboLo | 100% | 0:35.7 min. | 3 Nov, 2009 |
| 7 | Kathy | 100% | 0:36.8 min. | 7 Nov, 2009 |
| 8 | Poul | 100% | 0:37.2 min. | 7 Nov, 2009 |
| 9 | VictorV | 100% | 0:38.5 min. | 6 Nov, 2009 |
| 10 | greatholland | 100% | 0:38.8 min. | 4 Nov, 2009 |
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Nice game, and this is just the level of complexity I enjoy :)