Thirty miles northeast of Mexico City, in the ancient Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacán, is a huge monument known as the “Pyramid of the Moon.” Recently, a team of archaeoastronomers proposed ...

The sun played a fundamental role in the worldview of ancient Mesoamerican peoples. Among other roles, the solstices and equinoxes functioned as markers that were used to determine the ...

Unearthed just two decades ago in what is now eastern Germany, this 12-inch bronze circle is inlaid with gold strips in the shape of the Sun (or Full Moon), a crescent Moon, and various stars.

The study of celestial objects ran throughout ancient Egyptian culture. Religious events were fixed by the movements of the sun and moon, star charts were carved into the lids of tombs, and the ...

In Ancient Night, Rabbit is the guardian of the moon. Every night she fills it with sap, or agua de miel , from the holy agave plant. Rabbit's rival, Opossum, becomes jealous.

The latest archaeological findings in China show that the people in the Shang Dynasty (c.1600BC-1046BC) in ancient China had mastered the eclipses cycle of sun and moon. The discovery of oracle ...

Art History Decoding the Nebra Sky Disc, an Ancient Vision of the Cosmos. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the disc's discovery by treasure hunters in Nebra, Germany, in 1999.

In ancient China, the word “shih” meaning “to eat” described the eclipse as the sun being eaten by a dragon. In Yugoslavia it was a werewolf. In Siberia, a vampire.

These enigmatic “lunar swirls” are the result of ancient underground force fields that shield the moon from barrages of subatomic particles blasted out by the sun.

A team of archaeoastronomers suggests the Pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacán, Mexico, may have been constructed to align with the movement of the sun. Gorgo, Public domain Thirty miles northeast ...

Unearthed just two decades ago in what is now eastern Germany, this 12-inch bronze circle is inlaid with gold strips in the shape of a sun, a crescent moon and various stars. It may have been used for ...