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Per leggere questo articolo occorrono 3 minuti Una missione archeologica egiziana che lavora a Tell Al-Farma, l’antica Pelusium, il sito archeologico del Sinai settentrionale, ha rinvenuto i resti di un tempio dedicato a Zeus Kasios durante gli scavi che la missione conduce nell’ambito del progetto di sviluppo archeologico del Sinai …

The red planet –the fourth planet from the Sun and Earth’s cousin world– is one of the most fascinating places in the solar system. The reason? Because this not-so-distant world is the closest thing to our planet. Decades ago, Mars was always a desolate, barren world, where life could never …

Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University, the University of Haifa, the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Israel Antiquities Authority have analyzed residues from ceramic storage jars unearthed in the Babylonian destruction layer (586 BCE) in Jerusalem, Israel. Five of the jars had rosette stamp impressions on their handles, indicating that …

Ancient Neo-Assyrian artwork showing a procession of deities has been found in an Iron Age tunnel complex carved into the bedrock in Turkey. The unfinished, yet exceptional ancient artwork was discovered under a modern house. Read more Section:  News History & Archaeology Ancient Places Asia Read Later  Source: Ancient Origins

Studying the interior of Mars One of the unresolved issues in the study of the interior of Mars is whether convective processes still operate in the planet’s mantle or whether they stopped in the past. The answer to this question is important for understanding when exactly Mars lost its global …

MONT’E PRAMA, ITALY—ANSA.it reports that fragments of two monumental limestone statues of boxers that once stood more than six feet tall have been discovered in the necropolis at Cabras, which was discovered on farmland in the 1970s in the central-western area of the island of Sardinia. The 3,000-year-old pieces include …

WINCHESTER, ENGLAND—The Hampshire Chronicle reports that the remains of a twelfth-century wall and some floor surfaces have been unearthed at the site of Hyde Abbey in southeastern England by HYDE900, a community archaeology project. The remains of Alfred the Great (r. 871–899), who died in 899, were moved to the …

What is the Hubble Asteroid Hunter Project The Hubble Asteroid Hunter project was launched in June 2019 based on the citizen science portal Zooniverse. As part of it, everyone could study archival images of the Hubble telescope cameras for 31 years of observations, which were selected in such a way …

A pilfered copy of the Nostradamus manuscript written by Renaissance-era French physician, astrologer and psychic Michel de Nostredame, has been recovered and returned to the library from which it was stolen 15 years ago. Read more Section:  Artifacts Ancient Writings News History & Archaeology Read Later  Source: Ancient Origins

The new James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, has delivered a preview of its capabilities for observing the wonders of the universe. With the four scientific instruments aligned, researchers have created a GIF comparison image superimposing an older image of a region of space taken with a different …