(AP) -- Archaeologists have found five well-preserved Roman shipwrecks deep under the sea off a small Mediterranean island, with their cargo of vases, pots and other objects largely intact, officials said Friday.
Archaeology
Jul 25, 2009
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Scene 1. You're in the middle of nowhere. You pull over in your car. You set the GPS and it's only a moment before you're flying around some hidden switchback on the way to your destination - that stretch of beach with the ...
Software
Jan 8, 2016
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King Tut hasn't been around for a few thousand years, but his power remains: after a botched repair job of the famed pharaoh's beard left scratches on his burial mask, Egyptian prosecutors have ordered eight museum workers ...
Archaeology
Jan 24, 2016
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A new study examining 100 years of bumble bee records reveals that almost half of Vermont's species, which are vital pollinators, have either vanished or are in serious decline.
Plants & Animals
Dec 13, 2018
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Stressors like climate trauma, corporate deceit and political incompetence signal the threat of societal collapse, a new book asserts.
Social Sciences
Sep 18, 2023
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A feisty looking crustacean in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains is a new species found nowhere else in the world, according to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
Ecology
Apr 24, 2023
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New research led by palaeobiologists at the University of Leicester has identified startling similarities between the mouths of grasshoppers and mammal teeth.
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2022
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A 17-year-old student who spent just four weeks at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History has rediscovered hundreds of priceless specimens collected by Victorian natural historian Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913).
Plants & Animals
Sep 12, 2013
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Tiny coffin excavated at Giza in 1907 is remarkable evidence of importance placed on official burial rituals in ancient Egypt.
Archaeology
May 13, 2016
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A Buffalo museum has made a rare discovery within its own collection: a fully intact egg from the extinct elephant bird that until now, was thought to be fake.
Archaeology
Apr 25, 2018
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