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The Observatory of Maragha
In the chaotic aftermath of Mongol expansion in the mid-13th century which had left the Abbasid capital of Baghdad in ruin, a new centre of learning soon came to the forefront. Ironically it was the ...
Iron shackles found at Ghozza suggest at least some gold miners during Egypt's Ptolemaic period were slaves
A historian with Laboratoire HiSoMA, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, in France, has theorized that ...
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Centuries-old texts penned by early astronomers Copernicus and Sacrobosco find new home at a US university
The ancient astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was the first scientist ... Sacrobosco's "De sphaera mundi (On the Sphere of the World)" followed the Ptolemaic model of the universe with the Earth as the ...
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Shackled with Iron Chains: Archaeologists Reveal the Harsh Reality of Gold Mines in Ptolemaic Egypt
A recent archaeological discovery in Egypt’s Eastern Desert has revealed the harsh reality faced by miners during the Ptolemaic period. During excavations at the Ghozza site, a team of French ...