Believed to have been invented in ancient Greece at the end of the 3rd century CE, the astrolabe was developed and refined by Arab and Muslim scholars in the Middle East. It was the Arabic astrolabe ...

The reasons for having an astrolabe are many. The person responsible at the mosque for calling his fellow Muslims to prayer might have had one. A learned man in ancient Greece might have used it ...

From the Greek words for "star" and "taker," the astrolabe was used from ancient times all the way up to the early modern period. A useful tool and fashion accessory rolled into one, the astrolabe ...

Upon inspecting the astrolabe, Gigante was astonished to find just how complex the history of this particular device was. Astrolabes were invented by the ancient Greeks, but no astrolabes survive ...

Federica Gigante found a “rare” astrolabe with Hebrew and Arabic inscriptions ... 650-year-old artifact — and sparks a mystery → Ancient Roman ruins found in Germany help solve 140-year ...

Sometimes a little modern technology can help turn up an ancient treasure — even if ... on the corner that looked remarkably like an astrolabe," she says. An astrolabe is a 2D map of the ...

Archaeologists have made an important discovery while exploring Salamis, a small island off the coast of Greece near Athens ... that existed as part of the ancient city of Salamis, according ...

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 ...

“On the corner of that photo, I could see something that looked like an astrolabe,” Gigante told ... old artifact — and sparks a mystery → Ancient Roman ruins found in Germany help solve ...