Rising from the flat expanse of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, the monoliths at the center of ancient wonder that is Stonehenge echo an era we’ve long forgotten. Their very presence invites speculation over...
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Thousands of Mummified Ram Heads Revealed in Ancient Egyptian Temple : ScienceAlert
More than 2,000 mummified ram heads and a palatial Old Kingdom structure have been uncovered by archaeologists at the King Ramses II Temple of Abydos. The finds, located roughly 270 miles (435 kilometers) south...
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Complete Depiction of The Zodiac Found in Ancient Egyptian Temple : ScienceAlert
Looking to the stars for constellations that preside over birth and life has a long and complex history, and archaeologists have just uncovered a small piece of it. A spectacular series of relief paintings...
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Ancient Siberian Bear Reveals an Unexpected Twist on Close Inspection : ScienceAlert
An adult bear recovered from the Siberian permafrost in the Lyakhovsky Islands in 2020 is not, as originally thought, around 30,000 years old. In fact, its age is more in the region of 3,500...
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Ancient Structures in The Arabian Desert Reveal Fragments of Mysterious Rituals : ScienceAlert
We might be getting closer to understanding why hundreds of large stone structures were built across the deserts of northwest Saudi Arabia thousands of years ago. According to an in-depth new analysis, the mysterious,...
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Ancient ‘Zombie’ Virus Revived Almost 50,000 Years Later Is Still Infectious : ScienceAlert
From a horror movie plot to real life: Scientists have revived ancient ‘zombie’ viruses from permafrost and discovered they could still infect living single-celled amoebae. The chances of these viruses infecting animals or humans...
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Bacteria Found Riding The Plumes of Deep Sea Vents Hint at How Ancient Life Spread : ScienceAlert
The cloudy material that drifts from chimney-like vents in the ocean floor could harbor microscopic lifeforms scientists never even knew existed. The ridges of the ocean seabed are littered with fissures called hydrothermal vents...
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This Strange Ancient ‘Fossil’ May Not Have Been Left by Any Living Thing : ScienceAlert
An ancient three-dimensional star-shaped ‘thing’ still baffles scientists more than a century after its discovery. The undetermined whatchamacallits were found in 500-million-year-old bedrock in the southwestern United States in 1896. To the untrained eye,...
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Scientists Reveal How Humans First Populated The Ancient Megacontinent of Sahul : ScienceAlert
Between 75,000 and 50,000 years ago, humans began to make their way across the megacontinent of Sahul, a landmass that connected what is now Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and the Aru Islands. New research...
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Stumbles Upon Wave-Rippled Rocks Left by an Ancient Lake : ScienceAlert
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found wave-rippled rocks – evidence of an ancient lake – in an area of the planet expected to be drier, the US space agency said Wednesday. “This is the best...
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