Solstice and equinox alignments
Which solar alignments have been measured, and which are only asserted?
Monuments said to face the solstice or equinox sun, each with the survey or the claim behind the alignment.
Sites in this collection
- Stonehenge Stonehenge and Avebury · United Kingdom
- Goseck Circle (Goseck Henge) Goseck, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
- Newgrange (Sí an Bhrú) Brú na Bóinne · Ireland
- Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex Casma, Ancash, Peru
- Abu Simbel Temples Abu Simbel, Aswan Governorate, Egypt
- Dolmen de Soto Trigueros, Andalusia, Spain
- Great Sphinx of Giza Memphis Necropolis › Giza Plateau · Egypt