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Multi-million-dollar investment advances scientific instrument development and supports critical milestone toward completion of one of the world's most powerful telescopes ...

The researchers had a series of hieroglyphs to decipher. (Rossi et al., Antiquity, 2026) The Classic Maya period, from around ...