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Monumental Dam Near Elche in Spain Discovered to Be a Roman Imperial Hydraulic Engineering Work
A team of researchers from the University Institute for Research in Archaeology and Historical Heritage (INAPH) at the University of Alicante will publicly present on May 16 the results of their ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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The Schöningen Spears May Have Been Made by Neanderthals Who Already Hunted in Organized Groups
The famous Schöningen spears, discovered in Germany in 1994, are considered the oldest weapons made by hominins that have been preserved in their entirety. For a long time, the original dating that ...
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The Giants of Mont’e Prama, Iron Age sculptures found in Sardinia, could represent people with acromegaly
The Giants of Mont’e Prama are enormous sculptures between two and two and a half meters tall created by the Nuragic civilization that inhabited the island of Sardinia between the 18th and 2nd ...
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The Mystery of the “Ladies of Anavlochos”, the Broken Female Figurines Found on a Mountain in Crete
Archaeological excavations at the ancient settlement of Anavlochos, on a mountainside on the island of Crete, uncovered hundreds of figurines and votive clay plaques hidden among the cracks in the ...
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The Ice Maiden of Altai: The Spectacular Discovery of the Tomb of a Scythian Female Shaman Frozen in Time
In the summer of 1993, archaeologist Natalia Polosmak and her team were in Ukok, Siberia, investigating a group of kurgans near the border with Mongolia—burial mounds from the Pazyryk culture created ...
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Ordenstaat, the State Founded by the Teutonic Knights in the Baltic
It was not the first time an attempt had been made to subjugate them. Adalbert of Prague, Bolesław IV of Poland, the Kievan Rus, and Conrad I of Masovia had tried before, but without lasting success, ...
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The Mystery of the Parthenon’s Interior Lighting System in Antiquity Revealed
The light entered through the door of the temple on the morning of the day of the Panathenaeans, and was reflected in the statue and in the pools of water. Credit: Juan de Lara The Parthenon temple on ...
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Complete Tool Kit of a pre-Roman Dacian Stonemason Discovered
The complete kit of a pre-Roman stonemason found in Romania. Credit: Aurora Pețan In a Romanian forest near the hill of Măgura Călanului, an unexpected discovery has revealed a unique set of iron ...
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Scientists Create a “Black Hole Bomb” in the Laboratory for the First Time
A team of researchers has succeeded in recreating for the first time in a laboratory experiment a phenomenon that until now only existed as a theory in the realm of black holes. The experiment ...