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How I Rediscovered the Oldest Zero in History
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, concept, design, discovery, humans, history, investigation, research, science, scientists, society, space, study, technology )

Kit
- 24 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
The oldest zero in India with a confirmed date is from the mid-ninth century, and found in the Chatur-bujha temple in the city of Gwalior.
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Why Did Our Ancestors Start Walking Upright? Ancient Terrain May Hold Clue
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Marty
- 23 days ago - csmonitor.com
A prevailing hypothesis is that they were prompted by climate change. As African forests declined due to temperature fluctuations some 2.5 million years ago, the hypothesis goes, our australopithecine ancestors descended from the trees and ventured out
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Earliest Case of Child Abuse Discovered in Egyptian Cemetery
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Kit
- 20 days ago - livescience.com
A 2- to 3-year-old child from a Romano-Christian-period cemetery in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, shows evidence of physical child abuse, archaeologists have found.
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Fine for Destruction of Ancient Mayan Pyramid? $5,000
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Marty
- 31 days ago - foxnews.com
The penalty for the near-total destruction of one of the biggest Mayan pyramids in Belize -- which the government called "unforgivable" and left archaeologists speechless -- may leave conservationists speechless: just $5,000
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Billion-Year-Old Water Preserved in Canadian Mine
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Marty
- 31 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Pockets of water trapped in rocks from a Canadian mine are over a billion years old, and the water could contain life forms that can survive independently from the sun, scientists said this week.
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Eight Bronze Age Boats Surface at Fens Creek in Record Find
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Marty
- 14 days ago - pasthorizonspr.com
A fleet of eight prehistoric boats, including one almost nine metres long, has been discovered in a Cambridgeshire quarry on the outskirts of Peterborough.
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Beheaded Skeleton Discovered Next to Saka Princess's Tomb
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Marty
- 7 days ago - en.tengrinews.kz
According to the archaeologists, another tomb was discovered next to the tomb-chest. It contained a beheaded human skeleton without the right hand. The experts supposed that this could be a sacrifice place but stressed that it was only a guess.
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With Rising Seas, America's Birthplace Could Disappear
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Marty
- 31 days ago - npr.org
The first successful English colony in America was at Jamestown, Va., a swampy island in the Chesapeake Bay. The colony endured for almost a century, and remnants of the place still exist
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Humans' Indelible Stamp on Earth Clear 5000 Years Ago
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Marty
- 24 days ago - newscientist.com
When did humans stamp our footprint on the planet? The idea that we have entered a geological epoch defined by our very presence - the Anthropocene - is gaining traction, but exactly when did this epoch begin? After the first atom bomb went off?
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Image Gallery: Stunning Mammoth Unearthed
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Marty
- 17 days ago - livescience.com
Despite the recent discovery of a stunningly preserved mammoth, the odds of scientists using it to clone a real-life mammoth anytime soon are still low, experts say
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Plants Revived After 400 Years in Ice
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery )

Marty
- 17 days ago - cbc.ca
Plants that managed to re-grow after centuries buried under Arctic glaciers could prove useful for would-be pioneers hoping to explore life on other planets, research from a team of Canadian scientists has found
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Archaeologists Say 400 Animal Species Were Offered to Gods in Tenochtitlan
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Marty
- 7 days ago - hispanicallyspeakingnews.com
Mexican archaeologists have identified more than 400 animal species in some 60 offerings made to the gods at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, including molluscs, fish, birds, reptiles and mammals, the National Institute of Anthropology
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Where Did the Iron in Egyptian Relics Come From?
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery, Egypt, history, humans, interesting, news, research, science, University of Manchester, UK )

Dan
- 18 days ago - scientificamerican.com
The mystery of how ancient Egyptians obtained iron millennia before iron was ever smelted in the region has just been solved: they made use of iron brought to Earth by meteorites. Logged in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.
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Digging History: RAF Museum Set to Raise Nazi Bomber From English Channel
Science & Tech  (tags: history, archaeology, discovery )

Marty
- 17 days ago - foxnews.com
A British museum is about to haul 8 tons of history out of the English Channel -- the only remaining Nazi Dornier bomber from the World War II Blitz on London.
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Early Human Ancestor Primate Tiny, Scrappy
Science & Tech  (tags: archaeology, discovery, humans, research, scientists, study, ancestors, primate )

Giana
- 10 days ago - news.discovery.com
The oldest known fossil primate skeleton, dating to 55 million years ago reveals that one of our earliest ancestors was a scrappy tree dweller with an unusual combination of features.
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