University of Edinburgh. (2024, August 6). Carvings at ancient monument may be world's oldest calendars. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 08 ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be the world's oldest calendar, dating back an astonishing 12,000 years, at the ancient settlement of Gobekli Tepe in modern-day Turkey. The site ...

The Hindu calendar, also known as Panchanga or Panjika, is the foundation for many other calendars around the world and on this list and has been used since ancient times. The Vikram Samvat is the ...

The summer solstice occurs each year on June 21. It was celebrated by ancient cultures across the world, including the ...

Why ancient calendars still rule the world. Virtually all our cultures use at least one kind of calendar to mark vital annual occasions. From Mesolithic pits to religious events such as Ramadan, ...

Ancient people likely created the calendar as a way to memorialize the date when a swarm of comet fragments hit Earth nearly 13,000 years ago, the researchers claimed.

Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, host to one of the world's oldest ancient farming communities, paid a lot of attention to the skies. The world's oldest solar calendar might have been found there.

Markings on a stone pillar at a 12,000 year-old archaeological site in Turkey likely represent the world’s oldest solar calendar, created as a memorial to a devastating comet strike, experts ...