Ancient Civilizations
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed 110 burial tombs on the Nile Delta dating to periods before Egypt’s famous dynasties and pharaonic kingdoms had emerged more than 5,000 years ago, the Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said Tuesday. They also found tombs nearby from the later Hyksos period from between 1650 B.C. and 1500 B.C., when Western Asian […]
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Archaeologists have discovered an 8,500-year-old marble statuette in the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Konyaprovince. According to Ali Umut Türkcan, the head of the excavations, the statuette was found during excavations in the southern mound of Çatalhöyük, one of the first urbanization models in Anatolia. It depicts a 5-centimeter-tall (2-inch-tall), reclining human figure in
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Praise and credit in science often go to those who popularized an invention, not to those who invented the idea first. In 1840, Warren de la Rue created one of the first electric light bulbs in human history as he placed within a vacuum tube a platinum coil and glided an electric current through it,
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Even tens of millennia ago, humanity struggled with the impacts and ravages of war, and this has been exemplified once again recently as archaeological excavations revealed battered bodies buried in a cemetery at one of the world’s oldest sites showing human warfare, proving all was not well among the peoples who inhabited the east bank
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Scientists have finally solved the mystery behind the Pazyryk rug, considered to be the world’s oldest carpet dating back to the 5th century B.C., after almost three decades of research. Researchers, including Professor Dr. Karl Meblinger from the Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology at FAU, and x-ray microscopy experts Dr. Andreas Späth and Prof. Dr.
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he historic Silk Road city of Nishapur, which is located in eastern Iran, was a place of political importance and a prosperous center of arts, crafts, philosophy and trade in medieval times. But the city still sustains its fame today thanks to the master of arts and sciences it raised in the past: Omar Khayyam
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researchers have found a golden earring that is presumably from the Middle East and dates back to the 11th century in Denmark, according to an announcement by the National Museum of Denmark. The piece of jewelry was discovered by Frants Fugl Vestergaard, with the help of a metal detector, in a field in West Jutland.
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The headline may be a little misleading in its search for comedic effect, but it is a great day for researchers – and for any curious soles – as Egypt has “digitally unwrapped” the mummy of famed Pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing its secrets for the first time since it was discovered in 1881 without disturbing
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An exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo thought to date back at least 66 million years ago that was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a chicken was discovered in China, scientists announced Tuesday. The fossil was discovered in Ganzhou, southern China and belonged to a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, which the researchers dubbed
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Amosaic made by a freed slave to thank God for his emancipation was unearthed during the excavation at the 6th-century Church of the Holy Apostles in southern Hatay province. The Church of the Holy Apostles was found in an orange grove in the Arpaçiftlik neighborhood by Mehmet Keleş in 2007. After Keleş recognized historical artifacts while planting
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