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Identity of the Owner of Luxor’s Nameless Tomb Discovered
In the 1970s, a tomb was discovered in the Al-Asasif necropolis on the west bank of Luxor, Egypt, which archaeologists ...
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The Earth’s Core May Be Leaking: Traces of Precious Metals Found in Hawaiian Volcanic Rocks
The world’s largest gold reserves—approximately 99.999% of all the gold on Earth—are at an unreachable depth beneath more ...
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Valencina, the Great Prehistoric City Contemporary with Stonehenge That Flourished and Collapsed Five Thousand Years Ago
Just a few kilometers from Seville lies the archaeological site of Valencina de la Concepción, which five thousand years ago ...
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Archaeopteryx, the Fossil That Explains Why All Birds Are Dinosaurs and Can Fly
Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds, including modern ones, are dinosaurs. Although the first fossil of this ...
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Small objects from 3300 years ago had only been found in the wreck of the Uluburun, now also in a tomb in Cyprus
Chamber Tombs VV, XX, YY, ZZ, and AB East and West during excavation, the artifacts are in the circle. Credit: Peter M. Fischer and Rainer Feldbacher / Lucia Avial Chicharro Archaeologists found five ...
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The longest prehistoric journey undertaken by humans lasted thousands of years and spanned several generations
The greatest journey in human history was not made in a row, or perhaps it was. Credit: Google Gemini / labrujulaverde.com An international team of scientists has managed to reconstruct the longest ...
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The Great Fear: The Collective Panic Over Starvation That Sparked the French Revolution
On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and officially abolished feudal privileges. By the end of that same month, it ...
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Dark matter, the enigmatic force that shapes the universe, is born from particles that condense like steam into water
A team of researchers from Dartmouth College has proposed a new hypothesis that could verifiably explain the central enigma of cosmology: What is the dark matter that makes up 85 percent of our ...
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Over 300 Solar Systems Are Forming in the Center of the Milky Way, Scientists Discover
Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our own—and they have been found by the hundreds throughout the Milky Way, ...
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Monumental Dam Near Elche in Spain Discovered to Be a Roman Imperial Hydraulic Engineering Work
L'assut de l'Argamassa roman dam in Elche. Credit: ¿...Y por qué no un blog...? / University of Alicante A team of researchers from the University Institute for Research in Archaeology and Historical ...
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Evidence of the Use of a Polybolos, the Mythical Greek Repeating Weapon, at Pompeii in 89 BCE Discovered
A team of Italian researchers has discovered markings on the walls of Pompeii that could be the first known evidence of the ...
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Benedict IX, the Youngest Pope in History, Held the Papacy Three Times and Sold the Position to Get Married
It is common that upon the death of a Pope, comments arise recalling his pontificate—some positive, others not so much. But ...