North Macedonia's Kokino Observatory, One of the World's Oldest Astronomical Observatories


The Kokino Observatory, one of North Macedonia's most impressive and enigmatic sites, is also one of its most overlooked. Recognized by NASA as one of the oldest astronomical observatories in the world, the Bronze Age site played a dual scientific and religious role.


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