World’s oldest map of the stars that was lost for 2,000 years is FOUND – October 21, 2022 at 03:08AM

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…The manuscript originated from the Greek Orthodox St Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, but most of its 146 foils are now owned by the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC, Nature reports….the Codex Climaci Rescriptus is palimpsest, which is a parchment that was scraped clean of older text by the scribe so that it could be reused – technique to save paper…The astronomical information describes star-origin myths by Eratosthenes and parts of a famous third-century-BC poem called Phaenomena that was written by Aratus of Soli and also highlights constellations.Peter Williams, a biblical expert and lecturer on Hebrew…

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