An ancient book on astronomy from the 1500s sold for more than £10,000 ($12,200), as a "private international buyer" triumphed over intense competition at a U.K. auction. The Castle of Knowledge by ...

An astrophysicist has shed new light on how the ancient Egyptians viewed our galaxy thousands of years ago. In an "exciting" study published in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage Or ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Archaeologists think the oldest parts of the Rujm el-Hiri stone circle in the Golan Heights were ...

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A 4,300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in the West Bank is engraved the earliest known depiction of the universe’s creation ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to hear from Kelsey Johnson, professor of astronomy and director of the Echols Scholars Program at the University of Virginia, at ...

The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ...

A near-total solar eclipse occurred on June 15, 763 BCE, over northern Assyria. The eclipse was recorded in Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, within the Eponym Canon, a chronicle inscribed on clay ...

Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil has been predicting spring’s arrival every February 2 since 1887 — but the origins of Groundhog Day date back long before that. February 2 is actually a “cross-quarter ...

American Indians some 2,000 years ago constructed this earthen wall in Oregonia to align perfectly with the sun on the shortest day of the year. Every December, on the shortest day of the year as fall ...

A new analysis of the 6,000-year-old stone circle known as Rujm el-Hiri (also Gilgal Refaim) in Golan Heights suggests that it was not built to observe the heavens. When you purchase through links on ...