A news clipping from the Daily Express entitled, "The Strangest Mystery since Stonehenge," written by Chapman Pincher, dated August 4, 1947. The article discusses prehistoric Peruvian earthworks as related to archaeoastrology. The earthworks are discussed in relation to Professor Paul Kosok of Long Island University work "rediscovering" the large geometric and anthropomorphic shapes as an "astronomical atlas".

In Collection:

• Katharine Maltwood Collection

Creator

• Pincher, Chapman

Subject

• Zodiac--Religious aspects
• Archaeoastronomy
• Inca astronomy
• Ethnoastronomy
• Astrology and mythology
• Earthworks (Art)
• Maltwood, K. E.
• Inca art
• Religion, Prehistoric

Publisher

• Daily Express

Language

• eng

Date created

• August 4, 1947

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 newspaper clipping

Alternative title

• "The Strangest mystery since Stonehenge" by Chapman from Daily Express Aug 4th, 1947

Geographic Coverage

• England--Stonehenge
• Peru

Coordinates

• -10,-75.25
• 51.17889,-1.82622

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Katharine Maltwood Collection

Provenance

• Donor: John Maltwood

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• clippings (information artifacts)

Archival item identifier

• Box1_SecV_C_Lot2_6

Fonds title

• Katharine Maltwood fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC076

Is referenced by

• Finding aid for archival fonds: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/findaids/maltwood_inventory.pdf

Date digitized

• February 7, 2015

Technical note

• Digitized by Robbyn Gordon Lanning. Technical and cataloguing metadata provided by Robbyn Gordon Lanning. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (speccoll@uvic.ca). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/wqmk-tj57

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