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== Edzná as earliest Mayan Astronomical Center ==

== Edzná as earliest Mayan Astronomical Center ==

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''On the two days of the year when the sun is vertically overhead at noon, the stone disk ensures that the entireshaft is in shadow; on all other days, a stripe of sunlight will fall across the shaft. As a result, there can be little doubt that the priests of Edzná had an accurate gauge on thetiming of the sun's zenithal passage.'' VINCENT H. MALMSTRÖM from Dartmouth College.

''On the two days of the year when the [[sun]] is vertically overhead at noon, the stone disk ensures that the entireshaft is in shadow; on all other days, a stripe of sunlight will fall across the shaft. As a result, there can be little doubt that the priests of Edzná had an accurate gauge on the timing of the sun's zenithal passage.'' VINCENT H. MALMSTRÖM from Dartmouth College.

This and other critical [[Astronomy|astronomical]] associations that can be found here make some scholars speculate that Edzna ''was not only one the earliest true urbanized places of the Maya, but also most likely the birth-place of their modified version of the calendar and the seat of the oldest lunar observatory in the Mesoamerican realm''. ([http://www.dartmouth.edu/~izapa/M-25.pdf |MALMSTRÖM])

This and other critical [[Astronomy|astronomical]] associations that can be found here make some scholars speculate that Edzna ''was not only one the earliest true urbanized places of the Maya, but also most likely the birth-place of their modified version of the [[calendar]] and the seat of the oldest lunar ([[Moon]]) observatory in the Mesoamerican realm''. ([http://www.dartmouth.edu/~izapa/M-25.pdf |MALMSTRÖM])

== See also ==

== See also ==