News tagged with artifacts
ASU cosmologist suggests studying moon for alien artifacts
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you were part of a team sent to explore an unknown planet; and that planet had a natural orbiting moon, wouldn’t it make sense to use that moon as a base camp or remote observation ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 26, 2011 |
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Genetic research confirms that non-Africans are part Neanderthal
Some of the human X chromosome originates from Neanderthals and is found exclusively in people outside Africa, according to an international team of researchers led by Damian Labuda of the Department of Pediatrics at the ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 18, 2011 |
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Archaeologists Uncover Land Before Wheel; Site Untouched for 6,000 Years
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of archaeologists from the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, along with a team of Syrian colleagues, is uncovering new clues about a prehistoric society that formed the foundation ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Archaeologists find statue of Tutankhamun's grandad
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed part a 3,000-year-old statue of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, believed to be the grandfather of the young King Tutankhamun, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on Saturday.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 02, 2010 |
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An archaeological mystery in a half-ton lead coffin
In the ruins of a city that was once Rome's neighbor, archaeologists last summer found a 1,000-pound lead coffin.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Experts stumped by ancient Jerusalem markings
Mysterious stone carvings made thousands of years ago and recently uncovered in an excavation underneath Jerusalem have archaeologists stumped.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Indus script encodes language, reveals new study of ancient symbols
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 23, 2009 |
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New insights into the life of the Maya
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient artifacts are almost always concerned with rich and powerful religious and political leaders, but new excavations of an ancient Maya site have unearthed a pyramid decorated with murals ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Evidence suggests Neanderthals took to boats before modern humans
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neanderthals, considered either a sub-species of modern humans or a separate species altogether, lived from approximately 300,000 years ago to somewhere near 24,000 years ago, when they inexplicably ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Mummy's tooth yields DNA
(PhysOrg.com) -- A four thousand year old Egyptian mummy's tooth has yielded its DNA to probing scientists.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Paleo-Indians settled North America earlier than thought: study
New discoveries at a Central Texas archaeological site by a Texas A&M University-led research team prove that people lived in the region far earlier – as much as 2,500 years earlier – than previously ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Ancient Bethlehem seal unearthed in Jerusalem
Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,700-year-old seal that bears the inscription "Bethlehem," the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday, in what experts believe to be the oldest artifact ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 23, 2012 |
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Seeing color traced back to genetic mutations
From the inside of our heads, it feels as if colors are intrinsic aspects of the outside world and our eyes are beautifully designed to see them. But we humans are merely sampling the possible ways of sensing the spectrum ...
May 21, 2012 |
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Ancient bronze artifact from East Asia unearthed at Alaska archaeology site
A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small, buckle-like object found in an ancient Eskimo ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 14, 2011 |
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New method could revolutionize dating of ancient treasures
Scientists today described development of a new method to determine the age of ancient mummies, old artwork, and other relics without causing damage to these treasures of global cultural heritage. Reporting ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 23, 2010 |
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