La Quête du Temps is only on loan to the Louvre and eventually will be added to the Vacheron Constantin archive, but the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient Egyptian astronomical observatory at a temple site. The observatory, thought to date to the sixth century B.C., was built with mud bricks and is ...

An apparent record-breaking ancient astronomy "observatory," complete with a sundial, was uncovered recently during a temple dig in the old capital of lower Egypt. The mud-brick temple building was ...

A few years ago, Egyptian archaeologists discovered what they thought were the ruins of an ancient Egyptian temple dating back to the sixth century BCE. Subsequent finds at the site indicate that the ...

A new 3-D model of a portable sundial found near Pompeii is helping researchers understand how to operate the "pork clock." ...

The Mudumal megalithic menhirs in Telangana, dating back 3,500–4,000 years, served as astronomical markers. A part of India's Tentative List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, they reveal how Bronze Age ...

The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago measured ...

The remains of the observatory at the ancient Egyptian city of Kafr El-Sheikh Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities via Facebook Archaeologists in Egypt have just uncovered a truly stellar find ...

An ancient star map (not the document analyzed in the new research) unearthed in Dunhuang, China, in the seventh century C.E. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Thousands of years ago, Chinese ...