Peruvian Citadel is Site of Earliest Ancient Solar Observatory in the Americas.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-2 March 2007-YALE UNIVERSITY: Peruvian Citadel is Site of Earliest Ancient Solar Observatory in the Americas(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01032007 Tower 1 and Cerro Mucho Malo The rise of the sun between Tower 1 and Cerro Mucho Malo at the June solstice, 2003, viewed from the western solar observatory.

The sunrise position at the solstice has shifted to the right approx. 0.3 since the year 300 BC. New Haven, Conn. -- Archeologists from Yale and the University of Leicester have identified an ancient solar observatory at Chankillo, Peru as the oldest in the Americas with alignments covering the entire solar year, according to an article in the March 2 issue of Science. Recorded accounts from the 16th century A.D. detail practices of...