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Exploring the grounds of the religious site, also known as the Frombork Cathedral, the archaeologists employed ground-penetrating radar to uncover an underground chamber with three tunnels. It was ...
From Vedic hymns to stone observatories, how ancient India mapped the cosmos, decoded time, and laid the foundations of ...
Vatican Observatory Summer School welcomes students from 21 nations to explore the universe with JWST, igniting passion for ...
Ancient Greek astronomers were the first to gather knowledge about space exploration. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos could ...
Experience the unforgettable 2027 Egypt total solar eclipse with a 12-night Nile cruise and exclusive tours of ancient ...
The astrolabe is one of the most significant ancient Greece inventions. It is an instrument used to make astronomical measurements, like the altitudes of celestial bodies.. Its invention is often ...
Until now, the Hipparchus star catalogue from Greece has been recognised as the world’s oldest, believed to have been created in the 2nd century BC.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2000-year-old device which transformed our understanding of astronomy in ancient Greece. In 1900 a group of sponge divers found the wreck of a ship off the ...
About 2,500 years ago, Gree ce was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The ancient Greeks were great thinkers, writers, athletes, artists, and politicians who left a huge ...
What’s fascinating is that astrology and astronomy once walked hand in hand. In ancient civilizations—Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and even in the Middle Ages—astronomers were also astrologers.
An ancient bronze dagger associated with a sophisticated, extinct civilization has been found in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Turkey. The dagger, which features silver ...