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Maya Tattoo Tools Discovered for the First Time
Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found, deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, ...
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Cuju, the Oldest Form of Soccer in the World Played in Ancient China
For centuries in China, men and women gathered to play a game called Cuju. Considered an ancient form of soccer, a pastime, ...
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A Porticoed Road and a Bronze Panther Found in Augusta Raurica, the Best-Preserved Roman City North of the Alps
As part of a major construction project, the Cantonal Archaeology of Aargau carried out a rescue excavation between early May ...
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The Triton Baths in Southeastern Rome Were Converted into a Christian Church During Late Antiquity, Discovery Reveals
In the southeastern area of the city of Rome, archaeologists excavating inside the Triton Baths, built in the 2nd century A.D ...
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A Third Roman Fortress Discovered in the Northern Sinai Peninsula
The Egyptian archaeological mission affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities announced the discovery of a group of ...
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The Strange Iron Keys from the Roman Era Found in the Judean Desert
Three elbow keys from the Cave of the Letters assemblage discovered by the Yadin expedition Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority Credit: John Williams / Israel Museum Jerusalem In the 1960s, ...
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Submerged Circular Structures Discovered from Scotland’s Earliest Inhabitants, Who Arrived by Crossing Doggerland
Drone surveyed the orthomosaic map of the Sconsor foreshore, showing the circular stone alignment (C1) within the Sconser foreshore. Credit: K. Hardy et al. A group of archaeologists and scientists, ...
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All but one of Andromeda’s 37 satellite galaxies point toward the Milky Way—something so strange it challenges current cosmology
A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has revealed that the dwarf galaxies orbiting around Andromeda, our neighboring galaxy, are distributed in such an uneven way that it calls into question ...
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Why Would All Lightsabers on Earth Be Blue? Can We Really Freeze People in Carbonite? The Science Behind Star Wars
Dr. Alex Baker on 'The Chemistry of Star Wars' at the Royal Institution in 2024. Credit: Royal Institution Since its premiere in 1977, Star Wars has captivated generations with its mix of adventure, ...
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Wamba, the Elder Who Didn’t Want to Be King of the Visigoths
The Chapel of Corpus Christi in the Toledo Cathedral is also known as the Mozarabic Chapel because Cardinal Cisneros decreed in 1504 that it be used to celebrate worship according to the eponymous ...
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Scientists Solve the Mystery of Bolivia’s “Zombie” Volcano Uturuncu, Geologically Dead but Showing Signs of Activity
An international team of scientists from China, the United Kingdom, and the United States has managed to decipher the internal processes of the Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia, known as the zombie volcano ...
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A119, the United States Project to Detonate a Nuclear Bomb on the Moon, in Which Carl Sagan Participated
On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite in history, into orbit. That program would continue the following month with Sputnik II, which also carried the first ...