Who was the author of vastu shastra and how old is this science?

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clipped from www.vastu-design.com YL: VGS: Mayan, the great scientist, architect and town planner of ancient India, was the author of vastu shastra which may have been developed anywhere between 10,000 B.C. and 5,000 B.C. He was the author of Mayamata Vastu Shastra and Surya Siddhanta. His name appears in several epics like the Mahabharatha, Ramayana and the Tamil epic Silappathikaram. Later this system was codified in Vaastu Veda and Sthapatya Veda. While Vaastu Veda deals with vaastu (construction of buildings), Sthapatya Veda extends not only to vaastu but also to music, dance, poetry, etc.