From the Mediterranean to North America, there's a lot of evidence that the day the 'sun stands still' has been important to humans for thousands of years.
On Wednesday, June 21 at 10:57 a.m. ET the sun will reach its highest point in the Northern Hemisphere, bringing the longest day of the year — the summer solstice.
2. Khafra and Khufu pyramids, Giza, EgyptThe 4,500-year-old Pyramids of Giza are known mostly for being the tallest standing human-made structures until 1311, but it's perhaps less known that they are aligned to the cardinal points. From in front of the Sphinx, the sunset on the solstice takes place between the Khafra and Khufu pyramids. Around the equinoxes, the sunset takes place on the shoulder of the half-man, half-lion statue.
5. Sun Tunnels, Great Basin Desert, Utah, USANot all aligned monuments are thousands of years old. The Sun Tunnels, a modern art creation constructed between 1973 and 1976 in the Great Basin Desert in northwestern Utah, is the work of artist Nancy Holt. The installation consists of four massive concrete cylinders that are separately aligned with sunrise and sunset on the summer and winter solstices.
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