You might have visited the Jantar Mantar observatory in Jaipur, but
#DidYouKnow there’s an even older astronomical observatory in Uzbekistan?
Long before the giant sundials of Jantar Mantar were built, a 15th-century ‘scientist-king’ of Samarkand, Ulugh Beg, built an observatory that became the greatest scientific centre of the medieval world. Its most impressive feature was a gigantic stone sextant — an arc so large it was taller than a five-storey building. Part of it was built deep into the ground to keep the instrument perfectly stable while astronomers measured the positions of stars.
Using nothing but shadows and stone, Ulugh Beg mapped over 1,000 stars and calculated the length of a year as 365 days, 6 hours, 10 minutes, and 8 seconds. Even without modern computers or telescopes, he was off by only about 20 minutes from the value we use today!
After Ulugh Beg’s death, the observatory was destroyed in political turmoil and forgotten for centuries until archaeologists rediscovered it in 1908.
Walk beside the original stone arc and stand inside the trench where astronomers once measured the movements of the universe hundreds of years ago on the
#UltimateUzbek tour from 22-28 Sep, '26 with Khaki Tours, this autumn. Read the tour brochure here:
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