Scholars Finally Decode 'Unreadable' Ancient Roman Tablets That No One Was Supposed to See ...

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

Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...

Over 1,000 words, or about 30% of the text, has been deciphered, university officials said. Photo from the University of Pisa For centuries, a set of ancient papyrus scrolls discovered at Herculaneum ...

(CNN) — After using artificial intelligence to uncover the first word to be read from an unopened Herculaneum scroll, a team of researchers has revealed several nearly complete passages from the ...

(CNN) — Scholars are decoding an ancient scroll that was one of hundreds charred to a crisp during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The artifact, which is kept at the University of Oxford’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe around ...

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