Macedonia is the youngest ancient country in the world and is full of relics of times past.
It has been part of all the great empires of history, from Roman to Ottoman to Byzantine and they have all left their mark with thousands of ancient sites.
The country has an estimated 4,485 archaeological sites from all historical periods, according to Pasko Kuzman, of the country's Cultural Heritage Protection Office.
Jewel in the crown is Kokino, discovered in the mountains near Kumanovo in 2001 by local archaeologist Jovica Stankovski. It is a 4,000-year-old Megalithic Observatory used in the Bronze Age for studying the sun and moon.
The site, at an altitude of more than 1,000m and with a 100m diameter, is described as the "Macedonian Stonehenge" [no it isn't, apart from by brain dead journalists - MegP Ed] and is ranked by NASA as the fourth oldest ancient observatory in the world, after Abu Simbel in Egypt, Stonehenge in Britain and Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
Several stone seats, known as thrones and facing the east horizon were also discovered on the site.
Research showed that the observatory had a specific place for monitoring the stars and the sun, as well as specific holes through which the movement of the sun and the moon could be recorded.
More at CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/05/10/macedonia.ancient.sites.gallery/?hpt=C2
With thanks to Angie for spotting this
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