A researcher from the University of Edinburgh uncovered the earliest lunisolar calendar at Göbekli Tepe, an ancient site in Turkey. Martin Sweatman linked markings on a pillar to a comet impact 13,000 ...

Archaeologists have long pondered the purpose of Göbekli Tepe, seven hectares of 11,000 year old ruins in Southern Turkey. Its intricate carvings have proven equally enigmatic. But, a new study by ...

For as long as humans have existed, they’ve looked up at the stars. Whether searching for prophecy or navigational guidance, humans have assigned meaning to stars’ location and illumination in the ...

The timekeeping system was unearthed at the Gobekli Tepe site in Turkey. The ‘world’s oldest calendar’, unearthed at the Gobekli Tepe site in southern Turkey (Martin Sweatman/University of ...

If Dr Martin Sweatman from Edinburgh University is correct everything we think we know about the ancient past is wrong. He tells our Writer at Large how devastating comet strikes in 10,000 BC set in ...