Clive Ruggles

Image collection

Leicester University Archive

This archival collection of c. 1100 images of archaeological and archaeoastronomical interest has been available on-line since 1995. Thousands of new images will gradually be made available on this new site in the coming months.

Publications

This list of books and selected papers and articles contains links and downloadable copies where available.

Free downloads

Stonehenge and Ancient Astronomy

Download a copy of the Royal Astronomical Society’s factsheet

Astronomical Heritage

Follow to download a copy of the ICOMOS– IAU Thematic Study

New orientation data for the Giza Plateau, Egypt

A paper to be published in the 2012 issue of Archaeoastronomy presents new basic data concerning the orientation of the three great pyramids and associated structures on the Giza Plateau.

Desert labyrinth

A paper published in the December 2012 issue of Antiquity describes a previously undocumented geoglyph in the Nazca desert, Peru. This 4.4km-long labyrinth was originally discovered by Clive in 1984, relocated and surveyed 20 years later, and is now interpreted by integrating the scientific data and conclusions drawn from the first-hand experience of walking it.

Portal to the heritage of astronomy

The new web portal serving UNESCO’s Astronomy and World Heritage Initiative was launched in August 2012 at the IAU’s 28th General Assembly in Beijing, China. The site, which resides at www.astronomicalheritage.net, is a dynamic, publicly accessible database, discussion forum and document repository on astronomical heritage sites throughout the world, even if they are not on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

Archaeoastronomy

… is the study of beliefs and practices relating to the sky in the past, especially in prehistory, and the uses to which people's know- ledge of the skies was put.