Han Jianye, an archaeology professor at Renmin University, has previously argued that the first stages of the development of ...

This world class museum in Atlanta Georgia lets you see real Egyptian mummies, offering immersive exhibits ancient artifacts and unforgettable cultural discovery ...

In a monastery library on the Sinai Peninsula, a devotional handbook by the monk John Climacus sat quietly for centuries ...

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

Addressing students, faculty members and dignitaries, the President paid rich tributes to eminent Odia writer and social reformer Vyasakabi Fakir Mohan Senapati, after whom the university is named.

Using the synchotron particle accelerator, scientists read the erased ancient text of a Hipparchus astronomical manuscript.

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." ...

Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.

There are several ancient monuments proving that our predecessors possessed knowledge of astronomy and used it for practical purposes.

Scientists have successfully decoded portions of a long-lost star catalog created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, ...

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...