Hancock’s ideas have helped fuel the surge of interest in Gobekli Tepe as an ancient observatory. But he has an even more fantastical claim about the vulture and other carvings on Pillar 43.

This 2,500-year-old observatory, which dates back to the sixth century BC, was discovered in the ancient city of Buto — today an archeological site known as Tell Al-Faraeen near Kafr El-Sheikh.

Egyptologists have excavated a nearly 9,150-square-foot astronomical observatory in modern-day Tell el-Faraeen dating back to the sixth century BCE—the first and largest of its kind from that era.

An ancient Aboriginal site at a secret location in the Victorian bush could be the oldest astronomical observatory in the world, pre-dating Stonehenge and even the Great Pyramids of Giza.

The oldest solar observatory in the Americas has been discovered in coastal Peru, archeologists announced today. The 2,300-year-old ceremonial complex featured the Towers of Chankillo, 13 towers ...

The oldest observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii is slated for a $6 million renovation in 2016 that will transform the University of Hawaii’s 2.2-meter telescope into a “modern robotic ...

The century-old facility sits at a latitude of 6.8 degree south, which is closer to the equator than Hawaii’s Mauna Kea observatories (19.8 degree north) or Chile’s Las Campanas observatory ...

The ancient civilization that designed the solar observatory is hardly known, but it would have been one of the oldest cultures in America. In fact, this culture predates the Inca culture, which ...

An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.