Scientists have uncovered a 12,000-year-old monument that may represent humanity’s oldest calendar, a groundbreaking discovery in the field of archaeology. This ancient structure could redefine our ...

'Calendar' rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo discovered. The carvings were found at a site called Castle Rock Pueblo on the Mesa Verde plateau straddling the Colorado-Utah border. Early Native ...

Our modern calendar is the Gregorian calendar, named for Pope Gregory XIII, who reformed it in 1582 to correct some errors in the older Julian calendar. The Julian calendar was named for Julius Caesar ...

Researchers say an ancient calendar discovered in southern Turkey may also memorialize a devastating comet strike that hit Earth nearly 13,000... At first glance, the V-shaped symbols carved onto the ...

Markings on a stone pillar at a 12,000 year-old archaeological site in Turkey likely represent the world's oldest solar calendar, created as a memorial to a devastating comet strike, experts suggest.

A profound mystery surrounding the ancient Mayan calendar might finally have been solved. Previous research, on historic inscriptions, has found that the ancient Mayans used a calendar system known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. dulancristian/GettyImages Every time you glance at a calendar, you're examining the minds of ...

Event Abstract: Ancient Maya cosmology and sociocultural conduct was entwined with a complex calendar system. This is evident from thousands of stone inscriptions and other extant texts, especially ...

The heiau, as it’s known in Hawaiian, was reconstructed in 2007 and dates to the early to mid 15th century, according to a Feb. 24 news release from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Researchers ...