ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the 1,700-year-old tomb of the earliest known ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol. The ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

Ancient civilizations across the globe — from the Babylonians and Egyptians to the Maya and Chinese — had their own star calendars.

Yet, in spite of such absurdities, there was doubtless a substratum of truth in the tradition, and it is probable that the Babylonians, like the ancient Egyptians, from a very remote period were ...

In the ancient world, there were no modern telescopes that could observe the universe, but there were also regions where astronomy was developed through fairly advanced surveying and calculation ...

Read about the Ra II papyrus boat expedition led by Thor Heyerdahl in 1970, uncovering ancient maritime routes between Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Americas.

In one case, an Italian astronomer has proposed that a dramatic total solar eclipse triggered a religious crisis in ancient Egypt and led the last pharaoh of the 4th dynasty to abandon the pyramid ...

The observatory has a specific L shape with columns resembling Egyptian temples that show ancient astronomy’s ties with religious matters.