6,500-Year-Old Czech Sanctuary Tracked the Sun and Moon 1,000 Years Before Stonehenge
More than 6,500 years ago, prehistoric communities in what is now the Czech Republic created a vast circular sanctuary whose entrances appear to have been…
Ancient Astronomy
Göbekli Tepe’s Vulture Stone May Share a Neolithic Symbolic Language with Europe’s Trypillia Culture
A new comparative study suggests that the famous Vulture Stone at Göbekli Tepe may belong to a wider prehistoric vocabulary of signs, one that later…
The Scorpion That Tracked the Sun: Mexico’s 1,000-Year-Old Mound Reveals a Cosmic Connection Between Farmers and the Sky
Beneath the dry winds of Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley, archaeologists have uncovered something extraordinary — a 200-foot-long scorpion etched into the earth. For a millennium it…