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Simulation of the incidence of solar radiation in an excavated courtyard house from Ur corresponding to the times of the summer and winter solstices (Source: author's interpretation).
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In the earliest civilizations of the Ancient World, sun worship developed in parallel with an understanding of the movement of the stars. That was the origin of an architecture that expressed a number of religious and cosmological beliefs. Studies of ancient archaeological remains have revealed that astronomical orientations strongly influenced the...
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