Archaeologists have unearthed the skeletal remains of soldiers that died in the Battle of Camden during the Revolutionary War.
The Battle of Camden (August 16, 1780), also known as the Battle of Camden Court House, was a major victory for the…
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Filmmakers discover large fragment from Challenger space shuttle
A documentary film crew have discovered a large fragment from the Challenger space shuttle, while searching for the wreck of a WW2 aircraft off the Florida coast, United States.
Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) was a Space Shuttle orbiter,…
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The Republic of Seychelles is a beautiful scatterplot of a country: 115 islands…
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Stone Age grave reveals new insights into prehistoric burial practises
A soil analysis of a Stone Age grave in Finland has revealed new insights into prehistoric burial practises.
Archaeologists from the University of Helsinki excavated the grave of an adolescent child in Majoonsuo, situated in the municipality of…
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Researchers conduct ‘virtual autopsy’ of a mummified 17th century child
Researchers led by Dr Andreas Nerlich of the Academic Clinic Munich-Bogenhausen, have conducted a ‘virtual autopsy’ of a mummified 17th century child, using cutting-edge science alongside historical records to shed new light on Renaissance…
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Tree rings reveal devastating radiation storms
A study by the University of Queensland has revealed new insights into the cosmic radiation storms that have occurred approximately once every thousand years.
Known as a Miyake event, the storms cause a rapid rise in carbon-14 due to huge…
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Researchers discover lost fragments of the Hipparchus Star Catalogue
Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have discovered fragments of the Hipparchus Star Catalogue, composed by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus during the 2nd century BC.
The…
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Maya sacrificial victims found in the ‘Midnight Terror Cave’ may have been gagged
Blue fibres found in the dental calculus from Maya sacrificial victims in the ‘Midnight Terror Cave’ suggests that they were gagged.
The Midnight Terror Cave is a cave near Springfield in the Cayo District of Belize, named by the nearby…
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Impact that killed the dinosaurs triggered “mega-earthquake”
66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs.
New evidence suggests that the Chicxulub impact also triggered an earthquake so massive that it shook the planet for weeks to months after the…
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Ancient footprints found on UK beach
Archaeologists and geographers from the University of Manchester have discovered hundreds of ancient animal and human footprints on a beach in Merseyside, England.
The footprint beds show that, as global sea levels rose rapidly after the last ice…
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