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- Researchers are reconstructing what is believed to be the oldest-known map of the night sky, likely by Hipparchus, the ancient Greek astronomer, hidden in the Codex Climaci Rescriptus and revealed by X-ray scanning at SLAC.
- The manuscript originates from St Catherine's Monastery in Egypt.
- Historian Victor Gysembergh notes the work's significance for scientific origins, and the project aims to recover as much of the 200-page text as possible.
