Lasers have revealed a 1,000-year-old sacred road near Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. Researchers say the road was part of an ...

is for those who like a sleep in – provided they don't mind hiking to the top of a mountain. Either way the winter solstice is the time both of these historical and mythical passage tombs come ...

As our little group of seven huddled together, Laura Pettibone, our hike leader, explained over the dull roar of the downpour that at winter solstice the 15-mile route around the mountain is difficult ...

In 2023, the winter solstice takes place on Friday 22 December ... The Hopi welcome protective spirits called kachinas down from the mountains and prayer sticks are made to carry out rituals ...

The exact moment of the winter solstice varies from year to year due to a slight misalignment between the Gregorian calendar and the actual rate of the Earth’s rotation around the sun.

In addition, the two roads align with the winter solstice sunrise over Mount Taylor, which remains a sacred mountain among Indigenous peoples today, the researchers wrote in the study. The ...

listening to Derry Healy singing her brother Johnny's favourite song 'for these are my mountains' on the summit of The Paps of Anú during a fundraising walk to mark the Winter Solstice in Kerry.

The winter solstice came on Monday at 5:02 a.m. ET. The shortest day of the year heralds the arrival of winter; after this, days finally start getting longer in the northern hemisphere ...