The first high-quality genome of the desert locust—those voracious feeders of plague and devastation infamy and the most destructive migratory insect in the world—has been produced by U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural ...
Biotechnology
Jun 27, 2022
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Workers dig and ferry wheelbarrows laden with sand to open a new shaft at a bustling archaeological site outside of Cairo, while a handful of Egyptian archaeologists supervise from garden chairs. The dig is at the foot of ...
Archaeology
May 30, 2021
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A new book published today explains how the famous mummy Takabuti was likely to have been murdered over 2,600 years ago.
Archaeology
Apr 2, 2021
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Based on a manual recently discovered in a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus, University of Copenhagen Egyptologist Sofie Schiødt has been able to help reconstruct the embalming process used to prepare ancient Egyptians for ...
Archaeology
Feb 26, 2021
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While hair analysis has become routine in humans—for example for the detection of prolonged drug or medication abuse—it has been little used in animals to date. Scientists led by Alexandre Azevedo and Katarina Jewgenow ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 17, 2019
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To many, ancient Egypt is synonymous with the pharaohs and pyramids of the Dynastic period starting about 3,100BC. Yet long before that, about 9,300-4,000BC, enigmatic Neolithic peoples flourished. Indeed, it was the lifestyles ...
Archaeology
Aug 2, 2019
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Egypt says archaeologists have uncovered ancient tombs dating back to the Second Intermediate Period, 1782-1570 B.C., in the Nile Delta.
Archaeology
Jan 23, 2019
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Egypt says archaeologists have uncovered two ancient tombs dating back to the Roman period in the country's Western Desert.
Archaeology
Jan 15, 2019
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407
Egypt says archaeologists have uncovered parts of a booth with a seat that belonged to famous pharaoh Ramses II, or "Ramses the Great," one of the longest ruling pharaohs in antiquity.
Archaeology
Oct 25, 2018
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70
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an ancient pottery manufacturing workshop dating to more than 4,000 years ago in the southern province of Aswan, the Antiquities Ministry said Thursday.
Archaeology
Jul 19, 2018
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