The first known case of a pregnant Ancient Egyptian mummy has been revealed by researchers from the Warsaw Mummy Project.
The mummy, which is housed in the National Museum in Warsaw was previously thought to be the remains of the priest…
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Climate crises in Mesopotamia prompted the first stable forms of State
During the Bronze Age, Mesopotamia was witness to several climate crises. In the long run, these crises prompted the development of stable forms of State and therefore elicited cooperation between political elites and non-elites.
This is the main…
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New research uncovers continental crust emerged 500 million years earlier than thought
The first emergence and persistence of continental crust on Earth during the Archaean (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago) has important implications for plate tectonics, ocean chemistry, and biological evolution, and it happened about half a…
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New results about the diets of people who lived on the Great Hungarian Plain
The lifestyle and eating habits of human groups that have lived for thousands of years can be examined by tooth.
An international research group analyzed the prehistoric findings of the Neolithic Age. In addition to providing knowledge about the…
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Human land use wasn’t always at nature’s expense
Nearly three-quarters of Earth’s land had been transformed by humans by 10,000 BC, but new research shows it largely wasn’t at the expense of the natural world.
A study involving University of Queensland researchers combined global maps of…
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Poop Core Records 4,300 Years of Bat Diet And Environment
Deep in a Jamaican cave is a treasure trove of bat poop, deposited in sequential layers by generations of bats over 4,300 years.
Analogous to records of the past found in layers of lake mud and Antarctic ice, the guano pile is roughly the height…
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Microbe Discovered in Evolutionary Stasis for Millions of Years
It’s like something out of science fiction. Research led by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has revealed that a group of microbes, which feed off chemical reactions triggered by radioactivity, have been at an evolutionary standstill for…
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Black Hole Pairs Found in Distant Merging Galaxies
Astronomers have found two close pairs of quasars in the distant Universe. Follow-up observations with Gemini North spectroscopically resolved one of the distant quasar pairs, after their discovery with the Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia…
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Appreciating van Leeuwenhoek: The Cloth Merchant Who Discovered Microbes
Imagine trying to cope with a pandemic like COVID-19 in a world where microscopic life was unknown. Prior to the 17th century, people were limited by what they could see with their own two eyes. But then a Dutch cloth merchant changed…
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Lightning Strikes Played a Vital Role in Life’s Origins on Earth
Lightning strikes were just as important as meteorites in creating the perfect conditions for life to emerge on Earth, geologists say.
Minerals delivered to Earth in meteorites more than 4 billion years ago have long been advocated as key…
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