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900-year-old astronomy guide is oldest known book written in the Americas. In a rare reversal, archaeologists have determined that a Maya book written almost 900 years ago is genuine—after ...

Two Chinese scientists believe their country’s earliest star catalogue – an astronomical list of celestial bodies known as “Shi’s Star Catalogue” – is the world’s oldest star log ...

Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody, not even the mighty Democritus, who concluded that all matter was made from atoms, had the smallest idea of what was going on.

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According to the Ancient Egyptian Astronomy Database , most of the diagonal star tables found in the past have been found in coffins made in the early Middle Kingdom around 2000 BC.

Beliefs about the universe in the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica were defined by “cosmic trees.” The Maya believed in a stable universe with the Earth at the center.

This week’s news that archaeologists have discovered the long-lost city of Valeriana highlights one major part of Maya society: astronomical observatories. More than 6,000 structures unveiled ...