Hoover Dam's Hidden Astronomical Monument: A 26,000-Year Celestial Clock
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mkmk
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
The article reveals that the Hoover Dam contains a hidden astronomical monument on its western flank that serves as a celestial map marking the time of the dam's construction based on Earth's 25,772-year axial precession. The monument, commissioned by the US Bureau of Reclamation in 1931, includes massive bronze sculptures and a central flagpole in Monument Plaza that function as an astronomical clock aligned with the precession cycle. The design incorporates celestial alignments that would allow future civilizations to determine when the dam was built by observing star positions relative to the monument's markers.
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One of the two massive bronze cast sculptures that flank Hoover Dam's Monument Plaza.
On the western flank of the Hoover Dam stands a little-understood monument, commissioned by the US Bureau of Reclamation when construction of the dam began in 01931.
The most noticeable parts of this corner of the dam, now known as Monument Plaza, are the massive winged bronze sculptures and central flagpole which are often photographed.
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