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 immortality and to the sky. oh, that s so fascinating. thank you. it s extraordinary, really, talking to one of the world s top astro archaeologists about a civilisation that s 2,000 years old, standing outside a tomb, using satellite technology to find out that they didn t orient towards the city. and, you know, the temporal life. actually, they were building for their spiritual life.
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