Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar ...

As the clocks go forward this spring, see if you can solve these puzzles based on ancient calendars. When the clocks change for Daylight Saving Time, it can often involve a bit more mental ...

Virtually all our cultures use at least one kind of calendar to mark vital annual ... But how do those ancient ideas still shape our lives today? Presented by Howard Timberlake Iceland is one ...

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 ...

Jo Marchant, Nature In 1900, Greek divers rifling through an ancient shipwreck recovered dozens of bronze fragments that turned out to be parts of a 2,000-year-old mechanical calendar. Now ...

Researchers found evidence that an ancient Hawaii place of worship was “a sophisticated seasonal calendar and more.” Photo from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The system helped ancient ...

Even now, regional hangovers of this ancient calendar remain. May Morning in Padstow and Oxford are both markers of time against modernity. So too the Statutes Fair in Burton-on-Trent or the Abbots ...

In the ancient world, there were far more radical changes to the way people observed and formalised time. The changes to the calendars used by the Romans, for instance, led to seemingly impossible ...

Researchers believe an ancient shrine or worship site in Hawaii acted “as a sophisticated seasonal calendar.” The heiau, as it’s known in Hawaiian, was reconstructed in 2007 and dates to the ...