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.

Is This the World’s Earliest Lunisolar Calendar? Göbekli Tepe, the famed 11,000-year-old ruins in Southern Türkiye, has yielded surprising new discoveries. Göbekli Tepe, on May 18, 2022.

“This interpretation allowed researchers to count a solar calendar of 365 days on one of the pillars, consisting of 12 lunar months plus 11 extra days,” the research states.

If each V represents a single day, the pillar could have been a calendar containing 12 lunar months plus 11 extra days. As Sweatman tells the Times, ...

Each year of the lunisolar calendar is represented by one of 12 animals, called the Chinese Zodiac, which are thought to determine the personalities of people born that year.

Lunar New Year is a big celebration of the start of the lunar calendar. Some of the celebrations include dancing dragons, fireworks and amazing food. Find out your zodiac animal, make some tasty ...

The Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar, also based on lunar months, that begins with the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Here's when Easter and Passover are this year and why they fall "late" in ...