“ I'd like to point out this entire controversy is intrinsically horrible. Personally, I don't think that something is good just because it's old, because I am not a conservative.”

Human cultures can see the world through very different lenses, but the way we sort stars in the night sky is surprisingly universal.

What would the ancient Babylonians have made of recent celestial events like the blood moon and super moon? Just ask Yale professor Eckart Frahm. By Bess Connolly. (Feb. 22, 2019)

115 years ago, divers found a hunk of bronze off a Greek island. It changed our understanding of human history. By Brian Resnick.

From petroglyphs to castles carved into hilltops, explore our night sky through our ancestors at these amazing archaeological sites. By Babak A. Tafreshi.

After centuries of war, Catholicism and science reconciled over meridian lines.

The entrance to a proposed road tunnel beneath Stonehenge would ruin views of the winter solstice sunset from the stone circle, it is claimed.

Archaeologists have uncovered a trove of previously undocumented rock art in northern Arizona, including a prehistoric solar calendar that has been marking the seasons for more than 700 years.

For most of human history, the stars told us where we were in space and time. Have we forgotten how to look up? By Gene Tracy.

From astronomy to religion, the year's shortest day brings enduring mysteries. By Brian Handwerk.

The photograph above shows the aboriginal "emu-in-the-sky" constellation in the sky. It won its creator, Barnaby Norris, third prize in the prestigious 2007 "Eureka" awards. To see the "constellation", look at the dark dust-clouds, not the stars!

The tallest stone at Stonehenge points towards the sunrise on the midwinter solstice, according to a new theory from a steward at the site.