Long before telescopes and satellites, beneath the sweeping skies of southern England, ancient people gathered enormous ...

Easter 2025 will be celebrated on April 20, but the date isn’t fixed. It is determined using a centuries-old formula tied to ...

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Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar ...

It is Lent in the Christian world, but in reality, it only alters the lives of monks and Moscow restaurateurs, who rush to invent Lenten menus to profit from the public's fear of living in sin.

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

Celebrated by more than 300 million people worldwide, Nowruz is a 3,000-year-old tradition cherished in Iran, Afghanistan, throughout Central Asia and beyond. But what makes it special?

This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when ...

Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it did not.

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