Megalithic observatory Kokino

In 2001 archeologist Jovica Stankovski from the National Museum from Kumanovo-Republic of Macedonia, discovered a huge site with terracotta from the Bronze Age near the village of Kokino. According to the dimensions and the type, this site is distinct from all archeological sites seen up till then. The site covers an area of 5000 sq m, scale like established in two platforms right beneath the mountaintop of Taticev Kamen with an altitude of 1013 meters. At first glance the stone seats called thrones crafted into the rock and positioned in the north-south direction are dominant on this site. In that way a person seated on one of the thrones is turned towards the east horizon so that, among archeologists, arose an idea of existence for a possibility celestial objects to be observed in that way.
In 2002 physicist Gjore Cenev from the Planetarium at MKC in Skopje got involved in the researches of the site and made the first more comprehensive archeo-astronomical analysis. In the site, the central position was located for observation of celestial objects as well as existence of seven markers made in vertical rocks used for marking the positions of rising for the Sun and the Moon.