At more than 11,000 years old, Göbekli Tepe consists of a series of megalithic enclosures that were built close together. The ...

Ancient calendars tracked time in very different ways ... and weddings. The Western world did their own version of this, too, just within one complete calendar system. The Julian and Gregorian ...

How he found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar, the oldest time-counting system in the world, was explained yesterday by Dr. H. J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum in an ...

According to Live Science, the discovery sheds new light on the ancient Egyptian celebration of Wepet Renpet, or the Opening of the Year, a festival that was central to their culture and calendar.

The Chinese Agricultural Calendar uses lunar months to determine its dates, but it also has “solar terms” which are based on the solar year. These solar terms helped the ancient Chinese people ...