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November 20, 2003

An archeological team claims that the archeological site Tatikev Kamen in the Kumanovo area is actually a megalith observatory 4,000 years old, which indicates that Macedonia has its own Stonehenge. The site, discovered a year ago by the archeologist Jovica Stankovski, served both as a ceremonial place and observatory. The research carried out this year showed that the observatory had specific place for monitoring the stars and the sun, as well as specific holes through which the movement of the sun and the moon was recorded. Stankovski says that in the second millennium BC the location was set on fire. This corresponds with the period of the great migrations in this part of the Balkans. Head of the Macedonian Planetarium Gjore Cenev said that "this discovery proves that there was a civilization on the Balkans that lived two millennia ago unknown to today's science." "This civilization had its own culture and religious ceremonies. We did not find any written documents, but if we do that will be a true sensation," he said. According to Cenev, the measurements made in this monolith observatory were remarkably precise. "The location offers excellent conditions for observatory, but the way it was built is remarkable," he said.