Kathleen Martinez of the University of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and her colleagues were responsible for the ...

The ancient Egyptians sure loved gold, and it seems they saw human suffering as a small price to pay for the precious metal.

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AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very ...

Claudius Ptolemy (150 AD) map drawn from Ptolemy's coordinates for a 1482 edition of his Geographia (The Ulm Edition, Leinhard Holle) Lands beyond the bounds of the known world tantalized the ...

Now researchers have managed to recover the text written by Ptolemy on a parchment that suffered such a previous recovery attempt. Outermost six rings of the meteoroscope, not to scale.

Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of ... have given us evidence that this is the correct idea. Since its discovery in 1930, until 2006, Pluto was counted as the ninth planet in the solar ...