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Originally Posted by Rastermon2
Many times I'll be watching a show about ancient civilations Mayan, Egyptian, etc. And they talk about how the ruins are pointed to significant celestial objects. But they rarely take into account the earth's precession. It wobbles over a period of 26K years or something.
What it was pointing at 5,000 years ago is not there now.
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The ancient egyptians pointed their pyramids (at least the stargazing part of them) towards Thuban, which was the north star ~1000BC. There is a small list with further links at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Star.