Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
SLAC National Accelerator Lab researchers have revealed hidden references to an ancient “star map” in a centuries-old document.
Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...
A Bay Area lab is using modern technology to recover history that had literally been erased. The x-ray beam that comes out of ...
X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...
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