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The map was discovered by scholars studying Christian texts written on an old piece of parchment using a method known as multispectral imaging in which image data across different ranges of the ...
UNDATED (WKRC) - Researchers have discovered an ancient Christian relic that's over 2,000 years old. The document is believed to be the oldest map created ... piece of reused parchment paper ...
lay a curiously-folded and yellow section of parchment the deed of Elizabeth Ellison, spinster, to John Aymar, yeoman, of a plot of ground, comprehending lots Nos. 22 and 23, on Valentine's map of ...
In a paper published in the Journal for the History of Astronomy on Tuesday, scholars described discovering what they believe to be a 2,000-year-old ... map, which was drawn on medieval parchment.
Garman Harbottle from the Brookhaven National Laboratory says his team had dated the parchment to the mid 15th century, supporting the claims of its authenticity. The map surfaced rather ...
Written on a 25-by-24-inch piece of gracefully yellowing parchment, the document marks ... Paul Carnahan, librarian at the Vermont Historical Society, learned late last year that the Newbrook map ...
A 300-year-old map of a sprawling estate now in the care of the National Trust has gone on display after extensive conservation work. The hand-coloured parchment details Blickling, near Aylsham ...