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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 ...
Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...
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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 ...
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 ...
X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...
A Bay Area lab is using modern technology to recover history that had literally been erased. The x-ray beam that comes out of ...
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