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

Did you ever screw up your homework so badly that it gets preserved in stone and analyzed by researchers thousands of years later? Well, someone in Babylon did. The artifact in question is a small, ...

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