The world's first astronomical observatory
Max Fatouretchi
Author, historian, world traveler and advocate for human and women's rights | BS in Data Science - University of Vienna
The worl'd first observatory for astronomy is the Cube of Zarathustra and was built? 3000 years ago in Iran. This square, structure is located at the ancient site of Naqsh-e Rostam, where you will find other monuments from the Elamite to Sassanid era, from 2.500 BC to 650 AD.?
The observatory was named "Negaar-Khaneh", which means "House of Observation" in ancient Persian. It was used by Zoroastrian astronomers, the so-called "magoi". The word “magi” itself is an ancient Persian and Zoroastrian word that we use today in all languages: magier/Mago/Magos/Magi/Mage.
It’s truly remarkable that Iranian/Zoroastrian astronomers, thousands of years ago, precisely calculated the changing of seasons, solar equinoxes (vernal and autumnal), and other cosmic events. Celebrated for millennia by the people of the Iranian plateau—now over 300 million worldwide—festivals like Nowruz and Yalda are rooted in this ancient knowledge. Zoroastrian Iran not only determined the exact day and time of these events but also constructed ingenious tools to measure them. The 12 blind windows of this structure serve as solar markers, tracking the sun’s orbit, the spring and autumn equinoxes, the Zoroastrian Nowruz and Yalda, and the start of each solar month with unparalleled precision.
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