In excavating sites in a long-inhabited urban area like Jerusalem, archaeologists are accustomed to noting complexity in their finds—how various occupying civilizations layer over one another during the site's continuous ...
Archaeology
Sep 17, 2013
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Archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin made a spectacular discovery in their excavations of a Roman-Germanic battlefield at the Harzhorn in Lower Saxony. While exploring the area near Kalefeld in the Northeim district ...
Archaeology
Sep 12, 2013
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Declassified spy photography has uncovered a lost Roman Eastern frontier, dating from the second century AD.
Archaeology
Sep 3, 2013
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In this month's edition of Physics World, Paula Findlen from Stanford University profiles Laura Bassi—an emblematic and influential physicist from the 18th century who can be regarded as the first ever woman to forge a ...
General Physics
Aug 29, 2013
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Rare new details about an ancient Roman fort in southern Jordan have been uncovered by two UT professors.
Archaeology
Aug 22, 2013
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(Phys.org) —In a long-buried Italian city, archaeologists have found a massive monument that dates back 300 years before the Colosseum and 100 years before the invention of mortar, revealing that the Romans had grand architectural ...
Archaeology
Aug 21, 2013
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The raw materials for ancient glass beads found in former Rhaetian settlements in Bavaria clearly did not originate from this region. This is the conclusion following an analysis of the beads at the TRIGA research reactor ...
Archaeology
Aug 12, 2013
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Jewelry, pieces of ships, medieval ice skates, centuries-old skulls—some fascinating pieces of London's history aren't in museums, but underground.
Archaeology
Aug 8, 2013
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An archaeological excavation team, led by Newcastle University's Professor Ian Haynes (pictured), has identified the most north western classical temple in the Roman world.
Archaeology
Jul 24, 2013
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Crop rotation has been used since Roman times to improve plant nutrition and to control the spread of disease. A new study to be published in Nature's 'The ISME Journal' reveals the profound effect it has on enriching soil ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 18, 2013
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