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The World\u2019s Oldest Map of the Stars, Lost for Thousands of Years, Has Been Found in the Pages of a Medieval Parchment<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus catalogued the coordinates of the stars. Now, his efforts have finally been uncovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Sarah Cascone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This cross-fade montage shows a detail of the palimpsest under ordinary lighting; under multispectral analysis; and with a reconstruction of the hidden text from long-lost star catalogue of the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus. Photo by Early Manuscripts Electronic Library\/Lazarus Project, University of Rochester; multispectral processing by Keith T. Knox; tracings by Emanuel Zingg; courtesy of the Museum of the Bible Collection, \u00a9Museum of the Bible, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Scholars have discovered part of the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus\u2019s long-lost star catalogue of the\u2014believed to be the first map of the stars\u2014in a manuscript from a Greek Orthodox monastery in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The historic document, which comprises 146 folios, comes from St. Catherine\u2019s in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, and the majority is now in the collection of the\u00a0Museum of the Bible<\/a>\u00a0in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new study published this week in the Journal for the History of Astronomy<\/em><\/a> reveals that it is palimpsest manuscript, in which the original ink had been scraped off to reuse the parchment for a new project\u2014and that traces of the original writings can still be deciphered, revealing what appears to be a reference to Hipparchus\u2019s ambitious project to map the stars, including star coordinates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Astronomy historian James Evans told the journal\u00a0Nature<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that it was a \u201crare\u201d and \u201cremarkable\u201d find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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