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Medieval monks wrote over a copy of an ancient star catalog. Now, a particle accelerator is revealing the long-lost original text
A little more than a thousand years ago, monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert removed Western ...
X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...
Astronomy on MSN
Tour Europe's great celestial clocks
All living creatures are affected by the cycles of celestial objects. Humans have always been locked into the rhythms of ...
Astronomers suggest the honor should go to an 11th century monk known for a disastrous flying attempt.
The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for ...
Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...
The same pattern appears in agriculture, where African societies developed resilient, adaptive, and scientifically informed farming systems long before Europe stabilized its own. Agricultural ...
Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...
Formal education in Africa begins early and decisively in Ancient Egypt. By the third millennium BCE, Egypt maintained ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN
‘Birth of science’: Particle accelerator decodes ancient Greek star map hidden in text
Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...
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Live Science on MSN
Halley wasn't the first to figure out the famous comet. An 11th-century monk did it first, new research suggests.
An 11th-century monk saw the famous "Halley's comet" first as a child and later as an adult, new research finds.
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