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Function of Iron Age Stelae Along Prehistoric Route in Southern Iberian Peninsula Revealed
2+ hour, 6+ min ago (1251+ words) Archaeologists demonstrate that warrior and diadem stelae served both as funerary markers and as territorial milestones linked to communication routes, in a context of intense exchange between local and foreign populations during the Iron Age An international team of researchers,…...
How Long Will Life on Earth Last? A New Calculation Extends the Timeline to 1. 8 Billion Years or More if We Can Modify the Planet's Orbit
7+ hour, 12+ min ago (784+ words) La Br'jula Verde The Sun becomes brighter over time, and this increasing brightness will eventually suffocate plant life on Earth. The question that has occupied scientists studying the planet's future for decades is not whether this will happen, but when....
Tomb of a 6th-Century BC Picene Prince Found in Central Italy with a Two-Wheeled Chariot and Large Still-Sealed Containers
8+ hour, 57+ min ago (724+ words) Preventive archaeology investigations promoted by the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Ancona and Pesaro and Urbino, carried out by the company Archeo Lab in collaboration with the municipality of Sirolo in central Italy, have…...
Scientists Solve the Mystery of the Death of the Medici Brothers, Clearing Centuries of Speculation About Poisoning
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (771+ words) An international team of researchers has successfully sequenced the DNA of the skeletal remains of brothers Giovanni and Francesco de" Medici, discovering a previously unknown strain of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum and confirming malaria as the cause of their deaths....
Discovery Reveals an Irish Site as One of the First Organized Urban Settlements of the Bronze Age in Western Europe
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (782+ words) An archaeological study reveals that the Navan complex in Northern Ireland was one of the first proto-urban centers in Western Europe, with unprecedented territorial planning more than 3, 000 years ago. The research, published in the journal Antiquity, places Haughey's Fort, near…...
A Famous Michelangelo Sculpture May Be the Earliest Representation of a Disease, 327 Years Before It Was Officially Described
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (1177+ words) A study suggests that the famous Renaissance work may contain the earliest representation of hidradenitis suppurativa, 327 years before the disease was officially described. Can a 16th century work of art contain the diagnosis of a disease that would not be named…...
The Surprising Similarity Between Iberian and Scandinavian Petroglyphs of Ships: Nordic Crews May Have Carved Them
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (631+ words) Researchers from the University of Reading reveal that Bronze Age communities in Europe were interconnected through extensive maritime networks, according to a study comparing rock carvings from the Iberian Peninsula and Scandinavia. A new archaeological analysis, led by the Department…...
A Thousand Years Ago Entire Decorative Panels of the Pyramid of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli in Tula Were Torn Off and Buried Alongside Six Sacrificed Children
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (674+ words) INAH specialists discover a 40 by 80 meter structure with reliefs detached from Pyramid B, alongside child burials and evidence of ritual sacrifice. Nearly a millennium ago, in the 12th century, the city of Tollan Xicocotitlan was far from its era of splendor,…...
A Complete Self-Sufficient Settlement from the Second Intermediate Period Discovered in the Eastern Nile Delta
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (820+ words) The Egyptian mission working in the area of Tell el-Ku'a, in the Wadi Tumilat of the Ismailia province, has brought to light a set of tombs, a residential area, and various production facilities dating from the Second Intermediate Period. The…...
The cosmological principle says that if we look far enough, the universe is the same in every direction: a disturbing finding suggests it is not
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (545+ words) Researchers Francesco Sylos Labini and Marco Galoppo analyzed data from the DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument), one of the most ambitious projects to map the cosmos. Instead of simply counting how many galaxies there are at each distance, they devised…...