A tomb that may have been built for a close friend of Alexander the Great may be aligned with the winter solstice.

Now, a groundbreaking study has focused on a series of roughly 12,000-year-old carvings found at the site, which researchers believe may be the oldest lunisolar calendar ever discovered.

But according to researchers, the markings could be evidence of two big findings: The ancient pillar could be the world’s oldest lunisolar calendar, and it may serve as a memorial to a comet ...

The Lunar New Year follows the Chinese calendar, which is a lunisolar calendar. Despite its name, the Lunar New Year doesn't follow a purely lunar calendar. Instead, it follows the Chinese ...

But, a new study by Edinburgh-based Dr. Martin Sweatman takes the bold stance that these carvings record the stars—and that Göbekli Tepe was perhaps the earliest lunisolar calendar. Amongst its ...

The 13,000-year-old carvings found in Turkey track the phases of the sun, moon and constellations, making it the earliest known lunisolar calendar. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The Lunar New Year marks the beginning of spring and the new year on something called the lunisolar calendar. That's a type of calendar historically used in China that uses the moon and the sun to ...

The researcher, Martin Sweatman, a scientist at the University of Edinburgh, said in research published last month that V-shaped markings on the lunisolar calendar, which combines the movements of ...

The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival — often referred to as Chinese New Year — signals the start of a new year and the coming of spring for the lunisolar calendar. With diverse traditions ...

However, not everyone agrees with this interpretation. Some experts note that the ancient Macedonians used a lunisolar calendar, meaning the winter solstice's date would have moved from year to year.