Vanishing ice puts reindeer herders at risk
Deep in the Sayan Mountains of northern Mongolia, patches of ice rest year-round in the crooks between hills.
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Ancient artifacts returned to Iran from US university
The Iranian government says that nearly 1,800 ancient artifacts have arrived in Iran as part of the return of thousands of antiquities loaned decades ago to the University of Chicago.
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Oct 1, 2019
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A digital archaeologist helps inaccessible collections be seen
Davide Tanasi is a digital archaeologist at the University of South Florida. He creates highly detailed 3-D scans of archaeological artifacts that can be viewed online or used to create 3-D printed replicas.
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Sep 19, 2019
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New artifacts suggest people arrived in North America earlier than previously thought
Stone tools and other artifacts unearthed from an archeological dig at the Cooper's Ferry site in western Idaho suggest that people lived in the area 16,000 years ago, more than a thousand years earlier than scientists previously ...
Archaeology
Aug 29, 2019
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Iraq displays stolen artifacts recovered from UK, Sweden
Iraqi officials are displaying stolen artifacts from the country's rich cultural heritage that were recently recovered from Britain and Sweden.
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Jul 29, 2019
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Evidence of capuchin monkeys using tools 3000 years ago
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Brazil and the U.K., has found evidence of capuchin monkeys using stone tools as far back as 3,000 years ago. In their paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, ...
How 3D printing is transforming our relationship with cultural heritage
A few years ago, we were promised that 3D printing would transform the world. In 2011, The Economist featured a 3D-printed Stradivarius violin on its front page, claiming that 3D printing "may have as profound an impact on ...
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Apr 1, 2019
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Saving the lost text of a Torah scroll
Lights—red, blue, green, orange—flash in Gregory Heyworth's multispectral imaging lab in the University of Rochester's Rush Rhees Library, strategically tucked beside Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation.
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Mar 26, 2019
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Aiming for gold—improving reproducibility in hydrology studies
In six well-regarded hydrology and water resources journals published in 2017, the estimated percentage of studies whose results could be fully reproduced was only between 0.06 and 6.8 percent. This low level of reproducibility ...
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Feb 27, 2019
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Artifacts discovery halts some work at Marine base on Guam
Construction work stopped in part of the new U.S. Marine Corps base on Guam after artifacts were discovered.
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Jan 28, 2019
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