A Million Sunrises Ago

May 23, 2024
Jack R. Noel

I was just looking at a sunrise photo taken on the shores of the Detroit River some years ago and began to think about the past and future of that lonely little-known city park. What, I asked myself, was it like one million sunrises ago?

One million days ago was 2,739 years and 8 months ago or around August of 739 BCE. Hell, Greece wasn’t even a…