A new study of the 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck has revealed a complex ancient trading network during the Late Bronze Age.
The Uluburun shipwreck was discovered by a local sponge diver in 1982, close to the east shore of Uluburun (Grand…
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Dedicated archaeology community launches on Mastodon
Whilst Twitter appears to be going extinct with all the turmoil and public drama, a new haven for archaeology has been launched on the social network, Mastodon.
Mastodon is an ad-free micro-blogging platform, where each user is a member of a…
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Gold from ancient Troy, Poliochni and Ur had the same origin
Scientists, using an innovative mobile laser method have determined that gold found in ancient Troy, Poliochni and Ur had the same origin.
Researchers from several institutions, led by Ernst Pernicka, scientific director of the Curt-Engelhorn…
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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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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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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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New study on how Viking beadmakers recycled glass from Roman mosaics
A study published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences reveals new manufacturing techniques on how craftsmen in Denmark recycled glass from Roman glass mosaics during the 8th century AD.
Glass became a scarce commodity during…
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Potential first traces of the universe’s earliest stars
Astronomers may have discovered the ancient chemical remains of the first stars to light up the Universe.
Using an innovative analysis of a distant quasar observed by the 8.1-meter Gemini North telescope on Hawai‘i, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab,…
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