Articles for tag: ancient astronomy, Archaeoastronomy, Cosmic Mapping, Early Astronomers

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Discover How Ancient Astronomers Mapped the Cosmos Without Telescopes

Suhail Ahmed

  Long before glass lenses and orbiting observatories, people with no more than the naked eye and a good memory figured out how to read the sky with astonishing precision. From the deserts of Mesopotamia to the islands of Polynesia, ancient astronomers turned the night into a laboratory, tracking patterns so subtle that many of ...