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BAGHDAD, IRAQ—According to an Ars Technica report, a team of researchers from the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and the German Archaeological Institute has removed a block of sediment containing traces of a 4,000-year-old boat from a site that was once a river flowing on the outskirts of the ancient …

BOLOGNA, ITALY—According to a statement released by the University of Bologna, Leonardo Vallini, Luca Pagani, and Telmo Pievani of the University of Padova and Giulia Marciani and Stefano Benazzi of the University of Bologna compiled genetic and archaeological data to produce a picture of the movements of modern humans in …

Oort Cloud research and discovered objects Scientists’ current understanding of the population of the Oort Cloud is based on a small sample of bodies that are in orbits with perihelions of less than 10 astronomical units. At the same time, only some of them had cometary activity, which facilitates the …

Nuku Hiva is known as the largest island in French Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean. Beyond its history as the largest of the Marquesas Islands, it is especially known for the stone monuments scattered throughout its landscape.  Read more Section:  Artifacts Other Artifacts News Ancient Places Australia & Oceania Read …

Impact of the discovery of ‘Oumuamua The widespread interest in interstellar objects in the Solar System began with the discovery of ‘Oumuamua – the famous cigar-shaped object that was spotted a little bit too late in 2017. The best shot we have of the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua. Credit: ESO/K. Meech …

Per leggere questo articolo occorrono 2 minuti Toshiyuki Fujioka e Alfonso Benito-Calvo, ricercatori del Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), hanno recentemente pubblicato un articolo sul Journal of Human Evolution con i risultati della datazione di una fossa di strumenti utilizzando il metodo cosmogenico del nuclide isocrone, applicato …

Starting in the early seventeenth century, the French began settling the colony of Acadia—which stretched across what is now Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and south into Maine—where they established a number of prosperous agricultural communities. A key to their success was a system of dikes they created, …

An international team of astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa has discovered a galactic radio-wave laser known as a megamaser. This is not only the most distant but also the largest source of such signals reaching the Earth. It is located at a distance of about five billion …

Machu Picchu, one of the most recognized archaeological sites in the world, is located high (2,430 m above sea level) above the Urubamba River on a narrow saddle between two mountain peaks. The larger peak, called Machu Picchu (3,082 m), stands to the south, while the smaller peak, Huayna Picchu …

Declining temperature has been thought to explain the abandonment of Norse settlements in southern Greenland in the early 15th century CE, although limited evidence is available from the inner settlement region itself. In a new study, scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and elsewhere reconstructed the temperature and hydroclimate …