Some millennia ago, Yes might have been the object of worship in ancient Egypt. Today, Yes – a modern, domestic house cat – is helping shed light on the practice of mummification and the lives of ancients, such as Ramses ...
Archaeology
Feb 1, 2013
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Archaeologists have unearthed the great ancient monuments of Ostia, but the location of the harbour which supplied Rome with wheat remained to be discovered. Thanks to sedimentary cores, this "lost " harbour has eventually ...
Archaeology
Dec 7, 2012
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A museum in Philadelphia is unwrapping the mystery of mummy conservation.
Archaeology
Oct 22, 2012
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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.
Archaeology
May 11, 2012
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Without leap years, Earth would experience "calendar climate change" and the seasons would completely swap every 750 years, a Queensland University of Technology scientist says.
Earth Sciences
Mar 1, 2012
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Education, jobs, religion and even the cultural effects of bilingualism were as topical in the ancient world as they are today.
Archaeology
Nov 30, 2011
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Twenty years ago Monday, a German couple hiking the Italian Alps veered off a marked footpath and stumbled upon one of the world's oldest and most important archeological finds: Oetzi, "The Iceman".
Archaeology
Sep 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple application of honey to horses' leg wounds results in smaller wound sizes and faster healing time, University of Sydney researchers have found.
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2011
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At the start of the last century, a team of archaeologists began a race against the clock to rescue thousands of human bodies from ancient graves in modern Egypt’s Lower Nubia region. They would have been lost forever ...
Archaeology
Mar 15, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Nubians shows that they were regularly consuming tetracycline, most likely in their beer.
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 31, 2010
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