We take a look at the stone circles in Egypt and the Mediterranean. Is there a link between them all?
The oldest stone circle in the world lies on the Upper Nile. The stone circle at Nabta was begun in the 5th millennium BC. Perhaps the Minoans’ status as privileged guests in Egypt – as we know from the royal palace at Tell el Dab’a – would have meant that they were privy to the Egyptians’ knowledge of the heavens.
By the time the Minoans reached the Upper Nile in King Amenemhat II’s reign (1919–1885 BC) they could also have acquired much Babylonian astronomical knowledge, and might have been in a position to trade bronze finished goods with the Egyptians in return for their newly acquired knowledge.
There is an unmistakable pattern of observatories being found near mineral mines around both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coastlines. All were built between 4000 BC and 2500 BC, in Malta; Sicily; Portugal; Brittany; Ireland; Britain; Hebrides; Orkney Islands.
Further reading:
Map of the stone circles around the world:
The research of Thomas G. Brophy – http://www.thomasgbrophy.com/
The Tod Treasure – http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/tod/pages/el-Tod,%20treasure.htm
Toby Wilkinson, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553805533/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=gavinnet06-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0553805533
The Nabta stone circle:
http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/egyptnabta.htm
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=22092
