A team of underwater archaeologists has analyzed the remains of a Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Kumluca, Turkey, ...

Two recent studies led by Professor Stefano Profumo of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), propose innovative ...

The eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79 AD buried the city of Pompeii under ash and lava, and also preserved, like a time ...

At nearly 10,000 meters below sea level, where darkness is absolute, the pressure is crushing, and the temperature barely ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen has found that in Murayghat, Jordan, a fascinating Early Bronze Age site (approximately 5,000 years ago), human groups gathered to honor ...

Beneath what will soon be the route of the SuedOstLink, an electric interconnection project in eastern Germany, archaeologists from the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt have ...

Although the mechanism by which lightning strikes the ground has long been understood, the exact process that triggers its formation within storm clouds had remained one of the great mysteries of ...

An international team of researchers has identified what could be the first artificial memory systems created by humans, carved into bones tens of thousands of years ago. These findings, published in ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a group of researchers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has identified 17 complex organic ...

An international team of scientists has managed to decipher the genetic code of the Scythians, perhaps one of the most fascinating and enigmatic peoples of antiquity, known for their skill in ...

The internet and the digital revolution have rendered the fax obsolete, a device introduced by Xerox Corporation in 1964 that enjoyed a brief moment of glory in the following decades of the 20th ...

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