Kokino locality

The Kokino megalithic observatory is located on top of Tatikjev Kamen, on a neovolcanic hill at an altitude of 1,030 meters, about 35 kilometers away from the city of Kumanovo. This observatory is listed among the ancient observatories in the world.
The 3,800 years old observatory was discovered in 2001 and is ranked among the 15 oldest observatories in the world by NASA, along with Egypt's Abu Simbel Observatory and Britain's Stonehenge.
The winter solstice, the summer longest day, as well as the spring and autumn equinox can be determined from Kokino.
Observing the movement of celestial bodies helped in making calendars that served to organize the agricultural and livestock activities - the time to sow and when to reap.
The observatory, with the rocks and the sunlight helped our ancestors to determine the days for the performance of the ritual tribal rites connected with the cult of fertility, of the sacred marriage between Mother Earth and the Sun.
At the locality, you can see some kind of thrones in the rocks, so it is believed that in addition to an observatory, Kokino also served as a sanctuary, a place for rituals. But it also served for tribal gatherings, and the elders sat in the thrones carved into the rocks.
The megalithic observatory in Kokino is listed among the ancient observatories in the world. In 2005, the American space agency NASA included Kokino on the map of 15 ancient observatories, along with Abu Simbel in Egypt, Stonehenge in Great Britain, Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Machu Picchu in Peru and others.