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  • Ancient DNA brings to life history of the iconic aurochs, whose tale is intertwined with climate change and human culture

    11/13/2024 6:13:24 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 28 replies
    EurekAlert! ^ | October 30, 2024 | Trinity College Dublin
    Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with an international team of researchers, have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs – the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art – by analysing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 millennia and stretching from Siberia to Britain.The aurochs roamed in Europe, Asia and Africa for hundreds of thousands of years. Adorned as paintings on many a cave wall, their domestication to create cattle gave us a harnessed source of muscle, meat and milk. Such was the influence of this domestication that today their descendants make...
  • Multi-layered site in Tajikistan's Zeravshan Valley uncovered, offering new insights into human expansion

    11/13/2024 6:08:32 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 5 replies
    EurekAlert! ^ | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    "It turns out that the Zeravshan Valley, known primarily as a Silk Road route in the Middle Ages, was a key route for human expansion long before that—between 20,000 and 150,000 years ago," explained Prof. Zaidner. "This region may have served as a migration route for several human species, such as modern Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, or Denisovans, which may have coexisted in this area, and our research aims to uncover who were the humans that inhabited these parts of the Central Asia and the nature of their interactions."The archaeological team excavated three areas at Soii Havzak, unearthing layers of human...
  • Worm "Lost" For 68 Years Has Been Photobombing Seahorses This Whole Time....Where’s Waldo’s got nothing on these guys.

    11/13/2024 9:55:56 AM PST · by Red Badger · 7 replies
    IFL Science ^ | November 13, 2024 | Rachael Funnell
    Can you see the worms? Image credit: Chloé Fourreau Science is no stranger to discovering species, losing them, and then rediscovering them again, but what’s less common is to realize that the animal you thought you’d misplaced is actually being photographed all the time. Such is the tale of the marine worm, Haplosyllis anthogorgicola, that’s been photobombing seahorses at a rate of three in every four pictures viewed by scientists in a recent study. They’re pygmy seahorses, to be precise. Adorable, tiny, and oh-so photogenic, so it’s not surprising that citizen scientists have been snapping them across the central Indo-Pacific....
  • Mind-Blowing Discovery: Scientists Discover That Memories Are Not Only in the Brain

    11/13/2024 8:13:37 AM PST · by Red Badger · 61 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | November 13, 2024 | New York University
    A groundbreaking study has found that cells outside the brain may have memory functions, challenging the long-held belief that memory is exclusive to brain cells. Researchers demonstrated that non-brain cells could learn from spaced repetition, activating a “memory gene” similar to brain cells. Research reveals that kidney and nerve tissue cells can learn and form memories in ways similar to neurons. ========================================================================== Our brains—and specifically, our brain cells—are commonly known to store memories. However, a team of scientists has discovered that cells from other parts of the body also play a role in memory, opening new pathways for understanding how...
  • Sunken US WWII warship that went down with more than 200 servicemen found after 81 years (USS Edsall)

    11/12/2024 4:47:57 PM PST · by Libloather · 10 replies
    NY Post ^ | 11/12/24 | Chris Nesi
    An American World War II warship sunk by Japanese forces in a fierce battle after the attack on Pearl Harbor has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. More than 200 American servicemen perished when the USS Edsall was brought down by Japanese forces on March 1, 1942. The Royal Australian Navy discovered the vessel last year some 200 miles east of Christmas Island, south of Java, but the announcement of the discovery was withheld to coincide with Veterans Day. “Captain Joshua Nix and his crew fought valiantly, evading 1,400 shells from Japanese battleships and cruisers, before being...
  • Digital Model Reveals Hidden Relief at Borobudur Temple

    11/12/2024 4:03:16 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 11 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | November 12, 2024 | editors / unattributed
    Artnet News reports that Satoshi Tanaka of Ritsumeikan University, Jiao Pan of the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and their colleagues developed a neural network that they used to create a detailed, digital 3-D model of an eighth- to ninth-century relief at Indonesia's Borobudur Temple. Located on the temple's ground level, the sculptural panel was photographed 134 years ago before it was covered with reinforcement walls. The nineteenth-century black-and-white photograph shows a group of people set against a backdrop of trees and buildings. Artificial intelligence was able to identify "soft edges" in the photograph and thereby recreate the sculpture's...
  • Archaeology breakthrough as scientists find incredible 1,400-year-old battlefield [al-Qadisiyyaha]

    11/12/2024 3:23:03 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 3 replies
    Express UK ^ | Tuesday, November 12, 2024 | Stephen Beech
    Archaeologists pinpointed the location of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyaha which took place in what is now Iraq in 636 AD by combining space technology and historical texts.The clash was a key victory for Arab Muslims in their expansion beyond Arabia, and remains part of the core curriculum for students of Arabic history.But, until now, its precise location was not clear.A team from Durham University led by Dr William Deadman, a specialist in archaeological remote sensing, conducted the research with colleagues at the University of Al-Qadisiyah in Iraq.The researchers were undertaking a remote sensing survey to map out the route of...
  • New study pinpoints source of largest recorded Mediterranean earthquake in AD 365

    11/11/2024 7:30:07 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 18 replies
    American Geophysical Union ^ | May 10, 2021 | Joint Release: Nanci Bompey (AGU), Josef Zens (GFZ)
    On the morning of 21 July, AD 365, the Eastern Mediterranean was shaken by an earthquake that is generally believed to be the strongest recorded earthquake in the Mediterranean. It probably originated around Crete, Greece, and was followed by a tsunami that hit the Mediterranean coastlines causing many deaths. In Alexandria, tsunami devastation was so severe that the day of the event was commemorated as the "day of horror" for centuries after the event.The earthquake was strong enough to lift parts of Crete by several meters. This upheaval of the island left behind fossil shorelines, which Richard Ott, a scientist...
  • Submarine escape: A WWII survival tale from Kefalonia

    11/10/2024 5:55:19 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 14 replies
    BBC ^ | December 2, 2011 | Tim Clayton
    ...Two fifths of the subs that ventured into the Mediterranean were sunk and when a submarine sank it became a communal coffin - everyone on board died. That was the rule.In fact, during the whole of the war there were only four escapes from stricken British submarines. And the most remarkable of these took place on 6 December 1941, when HMS Perseus plummeted to the seabed...He dragged any stokers who showed signs of life towards the escape hatch and fitted them and himself with Davis Submarine Escape Apparatus, a rubber lung with an oxygen bottle, mouthpiece and goggles.This equipment had...
  • Study Investigates the Origins of Writing

    11/10/2024 12:24:52 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 58 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | November 6, 2024 | editors / unattributed
    According to a statement released by the University of Bologna, researchers led by classicist Silvia Ferrara have discovered that designs on Mesopotamian cylinder seals were the precursors to certain signs in proto-cuneiform script, an archaic writing system based on pictographs. Some 6,000 years ago, engraved cylinder seals were created to record the production, storage, and transport of textiles, crops, and other goods. The seals were rolled on clay tablets to create impressions of the cylinder's etched designs. Sumerian scribes in the ancient city of Uruk, in modern-day southern Iraq, developed proto-cuneiform around 3000 b.c. Ferrara and her colleagues identified a...
  • I found Colossal, Impossible Geometry with Desert Drifter [36:52]

    11/09/2024 1:09:53 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 14 replies
    YouTube ^ | September 19, 2024 | thePOVchannel
    An incredible coincidence resulted in Desert Drifter and I standing atop a mysterious and gargantuan block of stone in the middle of a forest.This thing had many secrets, but one stands out above all else. The history of this block, truly is puzzling.Had I not seen it with my own two eyes, I might not have believed it was real.I found Colossal, Impossible Geometry with Desert Drifter | 36:52thePOVchannel | 185K subscribers | 1,085,298 views | September 19, 2024
  • Woolly Rhinos Had A Hump On Their Back, Frozen Mummy Reveals

    11/08/2024 11:27:44 AM PST · by Red Badger · 14 replies
    IFL Science ^ | November 08, 2024 | Benjamin Taub
    We don't yet know if the hump disappeared after childhood. None of the previously discovered mummies had a hump. Image credit: Tiberio via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) For the first time ever, researchers have uncovered the mummified remains of a woolly rhinoceros with a big old hump on the back of its neck. Curiously absent in all other known specimens of the Ice Age megafauna, this fatty bulge attests to the remarkable accuracy of ancient cave paintings depicting rhinos with hunched backs. More than 35,000 years ago, prehistoric artists decorated the walls of the Chauvet Cave in France with stunningly...
  • Rare, misprinted dime minted in 1975 sells for $506,250

    11/07/2024 12:02:57 PM PST · by Red Badger · 24 replies
    UPI ^ | November 05, 2024 | Ben Hooper
    A rare 1975 dime missing its "S" mint mark was auctioned for $506,250. Photo courtesy of GreatCollections Nov. 5 (UPI) -- A rare U.S. dime missing its mint mark was auctioned for $506,250, nearly 30 times the amount it sold for 46 years earlier. GreatCollections, which handled the auction of the "1975 No S Proof Dime," said the coin was purchased by an Ohio collector and his mother for $18,200 in 1978, and it remained with the family for nearly 50 years. The collector's family decided to have the dime auctioned, and it was given a Proof-67 grade by the...
  • Pompeii Victims Weren’t Who We Thought They Were, DNA Analysis Reveals...They came from surprisingly far away.

    11/07/2024 9:39:25 AM PST · by Red Badger · 34 replies
    IFL Science ^ | November 07, 2024 | Benjamin Taub
    These ancient 'sisters' can now be seen in a completely new light. Image credit: Archaeological Park of Pompeii The surprising identities of some of the doomed inhabitants of ancient Pompeii have been revealed by a new analysis of their DNA, re-writing the life histories of these unfortunate souls. Based on their findings, the study authors suggest that certain long-standing narratives regarding some of the Roman city’s residents are wide of the mark, and are probably based on erroneous modern assumptions about how people lived in the past. Following the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius that annihilated Pompeii in 79 CE,...
  • Blacklands: The Iron Age Brits Who Welcomed The First Romans | Time Team [47:29]

    11/06/2024 5:23:47 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 12 replies
    YouTube ^ | September 24, 2021 | Odyssey - Ancient History Documentaries
    The team are in Somerset to investigate the remains of a small Roman villa, dating back to just after the time of the Roman invasion in 43 a.d. But previous excavations suggest it was occupied by local inhabitants rather than Roman invaders. Could it have been built on the site of an earlier, Iron Age settlement? The team are joined by Roman specialists John Creighton and Tom Moore, and Claire Ryley makes an authentic period garden. Members of the Stranglers put in a surprise appearance.Blacklands: The Iron Age Brits Who Welcomed The First Romans | Time Team | 47:29Odyssey -...
  • Hopes of finding Amelia Earhart's missing plane are DASHED once again: Sonar image thought to be the wreckage of her aircraft turns out to be a 'bunch of rocks'

    11/06/2024 1:49:03 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 28 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | November 6, 2024 | Jonathan Chadwick
    An 87-year-old quest to find Amelia Earhart's missing plane looked like it had finally come to an end earlier this year.Following an extensive expedition, explorers at South Carolina firm Deep Sea Vision said they'd found an 'aircraft-shaped object' in the same region of the Pacific where the legendary aviator vanished in 1937.However, a second expedition now reveals the object is not an aircraft at all, but simply a bunch of rocks.Tony Romeo, founder of Deep Sea Vision, said in a statement: 'This outcome isn't what we hoped for...'Deep Sea Vision set off on its initial search in September 2023 in...
  • Trump to Preside over America’s 250th Birthday Celebrations: July 4th, 2026

    11/06/2024 10:54:24 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 25 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/06/2024 | President-elect Trump will have the honor of presiding over the celebrations of the 250th anniversar
    President-elect Trump will have the honor of presiding over the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America on July 4th 2026, presenting an opportunity for him to throw the greatest party ever. The United States Semiquincentennial, as it is officially known, has been in the works for the past eight years, even before Trump took office the first time as the 45th president. Now, as the 47th, he can give it his unique flavor. Officially, the planning falls under the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, established by Congress in 2016. But Trump can be sure...
  • Trump — ‘I’m the 45th and 47th President of the United States’….

    01/26/2022 6:50:10 AM PST · by Red Badger · 79 replies
    https://citizenfreepress.com ^ | January 26, 2022 2:57 am | Posted by Kane
    While playing a round of golf, Donald Trump says he’s the “45th and 47th” President of the United States. pic.twitter.com/t223Q8ziTD — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 26, 2022 Book it. 2024 is a go.
  • Unearthing The Bones of Greece's Ancient 'Giants' [2:18]

    11/05/2024 8:37:12 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 6 replies
    YouTube ^ | September 19, 2024 | BBC Timestamp
    Ancient Greek authors believed that Mende was used as a base camp for giants before battle, and as palaeontologist Evangelia Tsoukala has been finding out, it's clear to see why.Unearthing The Bones of Greece's Ancient 'Giants' | 2:18BBC Timestamp | 784K subscribers | 9,562 views | September 19, 2024
  • Bronze Age Settlement Excavated in Saudi Arabia

    11/05/2024 8:21:22 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 6 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | November 1, 2024 | editors / unattributed
    Live Science reports that a 4,400-year-old settlement site has been discovered in western Saudi Arabia by a team of researchers led by Guillaume Charloux of the French National Center for Scientific Research. The settlement was made up of a central district, a residential district, and protective ramparts measuring about nine miles long. Such Bronze Age settlements in Saudi Arabia tended to be smaller than those found in Mesopotamia and Egypt, Charloux said. "These were small towns connected to networks of monumental ramparts surrounding the large local oases," he explained. This small town, dubbed al-Natah, is estimated to have been home...