Surveying solar storms by ancient Assyrian astronomers

Surveying solar storms by ancient Assyrian astronomers

A research team led by the University of Tsukuba combined observations from ancient cuneiform tablets that mention unusual red skies with r...

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Early humans travelled to Greek islands tens of thousands of years earlier than believed

Early humans travelled to Greek islands tens of thousands of years earlier than believed

An international research team led by scientists from McMaster University has unearthed new evidence in Greece proving that the island of N...

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New study shows huge dinosaurs evolved different cooling systems to combat heat stroke

New study shows huge dinosaurs evolved different cooling systems to combat heat stroke

Different dinosaur groups independently evolved gigantic body sizes, but they all faced the same problems of overheating and damaging their...

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Cache of sealed coffins discovered in necropolis on Luxor's West Bank

Cache of sealed coffins discovered in necropolis on Luxor's West Bank

Egypt's Antiquities Ministry says archaeologists have uncovered at least 20 ancient wooden coffins in the southern city of Luxor. T...

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Second monumental gate unearthed at Hacılar Great Mound

Second monumental gate unearthed at Hacılar Great Mound

An excavation team working at Hacılar Great Mound are jovial after finding a second monumental gate in the province of Burdur, unveiling a ...

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Belongings of warrior discovered on unique Bronze Age battlefield site

Belongings of warrior discovered on unique Bronze Age battlefield site

Recent archaeological investigations in the Tollense Valley led by the University of Gottingen, the State Agency for Cultural Heritage in M...

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Discovered: Unknown yellow colours from antiquity

Discovered: Unknown yellow colours from antiquity

Archaeologists have long known that artefacts from the Antiquity were far more colourful than one would think when looking at the bright wh...

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Study 'cures' oldest case of deafness in human evolution

Study 'cures' oldest case of deafness in human evolution

An international team of researchers including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, has published a new study ex...

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Dig season wraps up for 'Mentor', the brig carrying Acropolis antiquities looted by Elgin

Dig season wraps up for 'Mentor', the brig carrying Acropolis antiquities looted by Elgin

Salvage work on the historic shipwreck of "Mentor" off Kythira island in southern Greece, which carried off sculpture from the Ac...

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The brain does not follow the head

The brain does not follow the head

The human brain is about three times the size of the brains of great apes. This has to do, among other things, with the evolution of novel ...

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New research suggests global ice age changed the face of the planet

New research suggests global ice age changed the face of the planet

Curtin University researchers have discovered that a global ice age more than 600 million years ago dramatically altered the face of the pl...

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Geologists reveal anoxia caused loss in biodiversity in ancient seas

Geologists reveal anoxia caused loss in biodiversity in ancient seas

Since 2016 the researchers of the Department of Geology at Tallinn University of Technology have been engaged in a research project analysi...

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