Bronze Age Burial Mound
A Bronze Age mound in northwestern Donetsk in the Ukraine, the site where an ancient sundial was discovered in 2011.
Burial Mound Excavations
Excavations underway at a Bronze Age burial mound in the Ukraine, where scientists unearthed an ancient sundial in 2011.
Sundial Discovery
Archaeologists pose with a Bronze Age sundial dating back more than 3,000 years.
Sundial Carvings
Carvings revealed to be an ancient sundial used by the Srubnaya people of the Bronze Age.
Ancient Sundial
Yellow lines indicate the hours on a Bronze Age sundial at the equinox. The shadow-casting gnomon of the sundial would have been fixed at point "EQ" on the equinoxes.
Sundial Grooves
A close look at the grooves marking the face of the sundial.
Sundial Hour Lines
The gnomon of a sundial is the object used to cast the time-telling shadow. The Bronze Age sundial used two gnomons. Here, the hour lines for each.
Sundial Side B
On the flip side of the sundial, inexpert carvings attempt to recreate the sundial on side A. These markings aren't properly placed for time-telling.
Russian sundial
A second Srubnaya sundial, this one discovered in Russia in 1991, is less well-preserved than the Ukrainian find.
Srubnaya Russian Sundial
This Russian sundial also belonged to the Srubnaya culture, Bronze Age people known for their timber-framed graves.
Sundial Hour Markings
Carved-out wells on the Russia sundial show where shadows would fall to mark the hours.
