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3-D printing hits rock-bottom prices with homemade ceramics mix

This story is, literally, stone age meets digital age: University of Washington researchers are combining the ancient art of ceramics and the new technology of 3-D printing. Along the way, they are making ...

Technology / Engineering

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Researchers conclude that climate change led to collapse of ancient Indus civilization

A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Bronze Age Facebook

(Phys.org) -- Large clusters of rock art spanning thousands of years but located at the same site may hold key to detecting massive cultural changes in prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the north.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Flinders finds clues to early Dutch postal system

Ancient maritime inscriptions dating back to the early 1600s have been found on the coast of Madagascar by Flinders University researchers.

Other Sciences / Other

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Ancient plant-fungal partnerships reveal how the world became green

Prehistoric plants grown in state-of-the-art growth chambers recreating environmental conditions from more than 400 million years ago have shown scientists from the University of Sheffield how soil dwelling fungi played a ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Ancient sea reptile with gammy jaw suggests dinosaurs got arthritis too

Imagine having arthritis in your jaw bones... if they're over two meters long! A new study by scientists at the University of Bristol has found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Archaeologist finds first evidence of cult in Judah at time of King David

Prof. Yosef Garfinkel, the Yigal Yadin Professor of Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, announced today the discovery of objects that for the first time shed ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Internet allows virtual Giza tour in 3D

Vicarious travellers and students of history can take a virtual stroll through the vast necropolis build by the ancient Egyptians in the Giza Plateau, thanks to a 3D Internet project launched this week.

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created May 11, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Painted ancient Maya numbers reflect calendar reaching well beyond 2012 (w/ Video)

A vast city built by the ancient Maya and discovered nearly a century ago is finally starting to yield its secrets.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China

In the first exhibition of its kind, the Fitzwilliam Museum will relate the story of the quest for immortality and struggle for imperial legitimacy in ancient China’s Han Dynasty.

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Researchers discover new research use for plaque

While we may brush and floss tirelessly and our dentists may regularly scrape and pick at our teeth to minimize the formation of plaque known as tartar or dental calculus, anthropologists may be rejoicing ...

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