Lost Astronomical Treatise By Claudius Ptolemy Discovered
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A text thought to be lost by the astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century BC) has been discovered thanks to multispectral imaging, then deciphered and interpreted by two researchers from the Léon Robin Center (Sorbonne University/CNRS), and a researcher from New York University (NYU). Representation of Ptolemy taken from Popular Science […]
Lost Ancient Texts Of The Star Catalogue Composed By The Greek Astronomer Hipparchus Found
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have found fragments of the Star Catalogue composed by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus during the 2nd century BC. These texts, which had been erased from a manuscript during the medieval period in order to reuse […]
New Astronomical Knowledge Sheds Light On The Start Of Viking-Age Trade
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Mobility shaped the human world profoundly long before the modern age. But archaeologists often struggle to create a timeline for the speed and impact of this mobility. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Urban Network Evolutions at Aarhus University (UrbNet) has now made […]
Oldest Indo-European Calendar Based On The Orion Constellation Is Engraved On A Vucedol Vessel
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The beauty of stargazing is that so many celestial objects are visible to the naked eye. Ancient people who did not have access to modern, sophisticated telescopes could study stars, planets, the Sun, the Moon, and comets. This allowed ancient civilizations to produce startling accurate calendars and astronomically align temples […]
Astronomically Aligned Pyramidal Buildings Of America’s Oldest City Reveal How Its Builders Apprehended Space And Time
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Inhabitants of the sacred city of Caral were skilled architects, builders, and astronomers who studied celestial objects with great interest. Scientists have discovered pyramidal buildings, and other monuments in Caral were astronomically aligned to keep track of time so people could perform rites and ceremonies. Everything indicates the Moon was […]