One of the most striking examples of the Puebloans' knowledge of the solar calendar, though, happens on the fall equinox, when the sun rises through the doorway of an ancient great kiva ...

How the secrets of ancient cuneiform texts are being revealed ... plentiful hard stone – slate ­– which they carved the sun images on, but much of the rest of southern Scandinavia is mostly ...

The German-Egyptian archaeological mission has recently uncovered remains of Matariya’s Sun Temple in the areas ... Aymen Ashmawy, head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Sector and director ...

The facility tracked the sun's movements closely. An apparent record-breaking ancient astronomy "observatory," complete with a sundial, was uncovered recently during a temple dig in the old ...

“One version is that the place got its name from a sun temple – like the one in ... He highlights that the village is, in fact, home to an ancient Bhagavathy temple. “It is famous for ...

Humans have long been fascinated by the winter solstice. Many cultures found ways to incorporate it in their important sites. Here are 11 places that are mysteriously aligned with the solstice sun.