Question of the Week

December 22nd marks the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere ! The winter solstice has been celebrated for thousands of years.
Stonehedge in Winter:

Source: Solstice

An astounding array of ancient cultures built their greatest architectures - tombs, temples, and sacred observatories -so that they aligned with the solstices and equinoxes. For example, Stonehedge was built to mark the summer and winter solstices.

Newgrange is a megalithic site in Ireland. This huge circular stone structure is estimated to be 5,000 years old, older by centuries than Stonehenge, older than the Egyptian pyramids!

It was built to receive a shaft of sunlight deep into its central chamber at dawn on winter solstice.

Activities:

Cosmic Map Game

Recording the Changing Seasons in Acient Times

The background image is a carving at Newgrange
Source: Candle Grove