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Scientists have discovered a vast reef of “pristine” rose-shaped corals apparently unharmed by climate change in deep water off the coast of Tahiti, UNESCO announced on Jan. 21. Mapping approximately three kilometers (two miles) long and up to 65 meters (213 feet) wide, UNESCO said it was “one of the most extensive healthy coral reefs on […]
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Archaeologists have discovered a bronze military diploma dating back 1,898 years ago during excavations in the ancient city of Perre, located in the southeastern Turkishprovince of Adıyaman. Work began in 2001 to discover what the ancient city of Perre – one of the five largest cities of the Commagene Kingdom – had to reveal. Continuing
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After undergoing restoration for almost three years, remains of a fifth-century church from the Byzantine era in Gaza were reopened on Monday with the strip’s Hamas group leaders embracing their “Christian brothers.” The remains of a church and monastery were first discovered in Jabalia, a city in northern Gaza, in 1997 over an area spanning
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A centuries-old tombstone, estimated to date from the Safavid era, has recently been unearthed in a southern Iranian village. The tombstone was initially discovered by the locals and then delivered to the local department of cultural heritage and tourism, CHTN reported on Monday. Found in one of the villages of Minab county, Hormozgan province, the
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A team of archaeologists has discovered new traces of Neanderthal sites during its intensive field survey conducted on vast areas of barren lands in Eyvanekey, northcentral Iran. Led by Iranian archaeologist Seyyed Milad Hashemi, the team has found a considerable number of stone tools, some of which underwent laboratory examinations, ILNA reported on Sunday. “This
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New archaeological findings surface on the route of the much debated “Tren Maya” project on the Yucatán peninsula. Remains of nearly 2,500 pre-Hispanic structures and 80 burial sites were found on one-sixth of the route, Mexican experts said on Tuesday. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History did not say whether any of the remains
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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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