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The 585 B.C. Eclipse of Peace turned fear into ceasefire, as a solar eclipse halted war and reshaped ancient views of the ...
Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.
According to a controversial new study the world's oldest star map, known as the Star Manual of Master Shi, was created in ...
SQX-1 commercial rocket launched the Di'er-1 satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Credit: Space.com | footage ...
The Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum documents the history and legacy of the ancient Parsi community - a small ethnic group ...
A 2,300-year-old Chinese star chart challenges the origins of astronomy—sparking debate among experts about its true age.
They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...
Evidence indicates that ancient Egyptians migrated to Greek territory ... the oldest known world map discovered on a clay tablet from Babylon. The babylonian oldest map, dating back to around the ...
Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient astronomer ... used by scientists to map objects in the sky.
Currently kept at the British Museum under the stewardship of Assyriologist Irving Finkel, it depicts a circular map ... Ancient of Legacies, Assyriologist Irving Finkel investigated ancient ...
From ancient Babylon to modern bathrooms, soap has shaped human hygiene for over 5,000 years. But how does it really work? Chemistry reveals that soap’s unique molecular structure allows it to break ...
Leave historians and researchers to grapple with those questions. You can just sit back and enjoy these 15 images of ancient Egypt from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest.