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Google could be working on bringing themes to its Pixel devices. This is an old feature, but it's very welcome.
Ahead of the Dior cruise show in the Italian capital, the designer unveiled the newly restored Teatro della Cometa, a ...
For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?
Other ancient calendars, dating to the Sumerians 5,000 years ago, simply divided the year into 12 months of 30 days each. Their 360-day year was nearly a week shorter than our annual journey ...
Archaeologists in Tiel, the Netherlands, have uncovered a large sanctuary from the Late Stone Age and early Bronze Age, dating back approximately 4000 years. This remarkable site, dedicated to the sun ...
The settlement, inhabited from around 9500 BC to at least 8000 BC, is known for its large circular structures, which contain ...
For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...
Even now, regional hangovers of this ancient calendar remain. May Morning in Padstow and Oxford are both markers of time against modernity. So too the Statutes Fair in Burton-on-Trent or the Abbots ...
Researchers found evidence that an ancient Hawaii place of worship was “a sophisticated seasonal calendar and more.” Photo from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The system helped ancient ...
Researchers believe an ancient shrine or worship site in Hawaii acted “as a sophisticated seasonal calendar.” The heiau, as it’s known in Hawaiian, was reconstructed in 2007 and dates to the ...