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Hebrew University researchers uncovered 8,000-year-old pottery showing floral patterns built on precise geometric ...

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An international team of researchers has solved one of the great enigmas of the ancient world: how the Maya managed to make such astonishingly accurate predictions of solar eclipses. By reexamining ...