Sky Recorders
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By Clarence Underwood
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Up high in the sky planets and stars seem to fly.
In ancient times just like now, their movements
Were recorded and those seeing the records
Said wow! Non-stargazers not knowing where to
Look, take all the recorded information and put it
Into Astronomy books. Multiple languages it
Was all written in, some was very ancient others
Were closer in. Things like Egypt's Dendera Zodiac
Or Gobekli Tepe there in Turkey, stood as sign for us
To see. They needed a skywatcher to figure out what was
Seen. While there in Mesopotamia Henry Layard had
A dream. He dug up K8538 which was an ancient star map.
It records in cuneiform script a time long ago, where stars were
In the sky and perhaps a comet was all a glow. Now we have a
Book about it you know! Be it Hieroglyphs
Or Cuneiform or something else, we now have the
Knowledge to build a History of Astronomy for ourselves.
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A replica of k8538, the original is found in the British Museum in London. According to Hempsell and Bond, this tablet records a celestial event which occurred some 5,000 years ago.
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