Ancient Athens celebrated the Spring Equinox as one of the most important feasts, a celebration of resurrection following death.

Cleostratus was a truly pioneering Greek astronomer who lived on the small Aegean island of Tenedos in the 6th century BC.

For the first time in more than a century, since Howard Carter unearthed the final resting place of King Tut, Egyptologists have uncovered a decorated royal tomb in the Luxor area, west of the ...

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 ...

Scientists have traced a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) to the edge of an ancient galaxy where star formation has drastically dropped. Researchers are struggling to explain what caused it.

The same question, along with alarming answers, has ricocheted through Egyptian, Arab and Israeli media. An Israeli website published an AI-generated scenario of an attack destroying Egypt’s ...

Earlier, Egypt's National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG ... Ramadan, the ninth month in the Hijri (Islamic) calendar, follows a lunar cycle, with each month starting ...

The discovery of Thutmose II's tomb last week — the first burial of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh to be discovered within or near the Valley of the Kings since King Tutankhamun's tomb was found in ...