The stones were found near an ancient Rupinpiccolo protohistoric ... be pointing to the stones being the earliest-known maps of the night sky. Another theory, according to Thompson, is that ...

Related: Star maps through the ages: A Q&A with the author of 'The Sky Atlas' Beneath Christian writings in the parchment known as the Codex Climaci Rescriptus were ancient Greek letters belonging ...

Researchers at Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics discovered a celestial map believed to be from between 1800 to 400 BC. Scientists say there's one star on it that doesn't match our sky.

that Hipparchus did in fact map the night sky and at least part of that map existed, as thin as that existence may be, inside this ancient palimpsest. Not only did Hipparchus map the stars but he ...

A prehistoric map of the night sky has been discovered on the walls of the famous painted caves at Lascaux in central France. It is a map of the prehistoric cosmos According to Dr Rappenglueck, these ...

An ancient and detailed map of the night sky was discovered in Italy, researcher said. Figure from the journal Astronomical Notes Researchers recently discovered a detailed map of the night sky ...