Goce Delcev university students from Stip led by their professor Dusko Aleksovski discovered the Pleiadean star cluster embedded into a rock believed to be thousands of years old. The students were out doing field work near the Kratovo village of Sopsko Rudare when the strange formation was noticed into the rock.

Upon further inspection, the students and their professor from the Paleolinguistics Department at Goce Delcev University realized the formation resembles the Pleiades star system.

The Pleiades are 424 light years away from Earth.

 
The Pleiades are a prominent sight in winter in the Northern Hemisphere and in summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world, including the Māori, Aboriginal Australians, the Persians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Maya, the Aztec, and the Sioux and Cherokee.

Interesting about the location of the rock and the forms carved into it is that both the forms and the rock are precisely aligned with the Pleiades as it appears in the sky.