Astronomers and physicists are still searching for clues to the sunspot cycles as we discover what ancient cultures knew. The sun brings both life and death. Is there any wonder that most ancient societies were in some sense or another “sun worshippers”? In 1989, Maurice Cotterell found a magnetic sun spot cycle of 68,302 days in relation to the earth. Big deal! The Egyptians knew that 5,000 years ago!
Such earthshaking stuff and yet, no big deal to the Egyptians.
Several 5,000+ year old Egyptian papyruses were already calculating such as were the Mayans much later. How did they know such stuff? Where did they get such mathematical skills? As we discovered from the Papyrus of Rhind which is now in a Moscow Museum, the Egyptians could calculate the volume and surface area of a half sphere. I don’t even know what that means! 
We’ve recently discovered that sun spots come in pairs, move from the poles to the equator, and the spots themselves are much cooler than the rest of the sun’s surface area. And? And the Egyptians knew all that so, so long ago, it’s almost embarassing as to how recently we’ve discovered such information. The polar field of the sun is invisible from the earth and only satellites in orbit around the sun have been able to register it- except the Egyptians already knew that.
So, how long are we going to blow of as legend, myth, and tall tales that which we’re now discovering to be FACTS that ancient cultures knew. Who can even look at the sun long enough without blinding themselves to even see a sun spot let alone being able to understand and track them 5,000 years ago. Pssst- and that’s without a telescope as well.
When will we admit that just because we have computers, internet, and digital expertise, it doesn’t tell us how or why that so much that we’re recently learning had already been known. How’d we forget? Why did we forget? Can we at least discuss the questions- before 2012?
