Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

Long forgotten and hidden under layers of religious texts, the world’s earliest star catalog has just resurfaced. Scientists ...

Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...

There are several ancient monuments proving that our predecessors possessed knowledge of astronomy and used it for practical purposes.

History is often taught as if astronomy followed a single European arc—from Greek philosophy to Renaissance telescopes to modern science—while Africa appears absent or myth-bound. This series, “When ...