The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago measured ...

Ancient Greek astronomers and early Islamic scientists used astrolabes as mechanical computers to calculate time, determine height and navigate by the stars ...

Sometimes a little modern technology can help turn up an ancient treasure — even if that technology is nothing more than a computer screen and a simple web search. That's what happened to Federica ...

The identification of an eleventh century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever discovered and one of only a handful known in the world ...

Lost & Found This 1,000-Year-Old Smartphone Just Dialed In By Franz Lidz and Clara Vannucci For 2,000 years, celestial observers mapped the heavens with astonishingly precise instruments called ...

An 11th-century artifact sitting in an Italian museum has been identified as a scientific instrument inscribed with an incredible surprise: signs of use by Muslim, Hebrew and Christian users. Federica ...

The stars that twinkled over medieval Verona have long been known for tragically entangling two young lovers in Shakespeare’sRomeo and Juliet. Now a rare Islamic astrolabe that was recently ...

Astrolabe is an ancient tool for measuring celestial positions. It helped sailors and scholars navigate and track time. Astrolabe symbolizes scientific progress and human curiosity. Did our AI summary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A circular bronze astronomical instrument lies on a blue cloth. An 11th-century astrolabe — a device used for accurately ...