Astro Archaeologists News Today

all sport voice-over: this is bbc news. we will have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. im alice morrison, an adventurer and writer. ive cycled across africa and run across the sahara. now im on the trail of a mysterious and forgotten arabian civilisation — the nabataeans. are we standing in the birthplace of written arabic? i think i would say that, yes. they were nomads who forged a rich civilisation here in the harsh desert condit...

Outside and look at the facade. here it is. if you walk a little bit more. perfect, you are looking out to the facade of tomb 21. it has a peculiar decoration with two jars over the pediment and then one eagle. yeah. this eagle is possibly associated in the sun god, dushara. dushara was born in the winter solstice, but he was conceived at the spring equinox. and then you have the astronomical alignment. so there is a whole connection in which the bodies of the dead were in some way connected to ...