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Discovery includes probable looted jewelry, battle relicsCredit: UNC Charlotte The Univeristy of North Carolina at Charlotte-led archaeological dig on Jerusalem's Mount Zion has been going on for over a decade, looking…

South Africa's greatest fossil discoveries in modern times to be showcased for the first time at the Perot Museum in AmericaCredit: John Hawks/Wits University The University of Witwatersrand (Wits University), the Perot…

UMD physicist for Apollo experiment gets chance to send next gen version to moonCredit: Doug Currie, University of Maryland COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- In 1969, University of Maryland physicist Doug Currie helped design three…

Credit: A. Hay, courtesy of the Tel Beth-Shemesh Excavations exhibition. The keeping of livestock began in the Ancient Near East and underpinned the emergence of complex economies and then cities. Subsequently, it is there that the world's…

Credit: Rachel Sau Garcia, executive secretary of the Ernest Hemingway Museum (San Antonio, July 11, 2019) -- UTSA historic preservation and architecture professor William Dupont, working with the Boston based Finca Vigia Foundation and…

Credit: University of Basel A letter in the Basel papyrus collection describes day-to-day family matters and yet is unique in its own way: it provides valuable insights into the world of the first Christians in the Roman Empire, which…

The first 3D images of the oldest Christian church in Russia were obtainedCredit: © NUST MISIS NUST MISIS scientists together with the colleagues from P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences of the Russian…

Credit: DRI RENO, Nev. (July 8, 2019) - How did events like the Black Death plague impact the economy of Medieval Europe? Particles of lead trapped deep in Arctic ice can tell us. Commercial and industrial processes have emitted lead…

Ancient genomes suggest that the Philistines descended from people who migrated across the Mediterranean and reached the shores of the southern Levant at the beginning of the Iron AgeCredit: Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Human…

The role of diet in climate change The question of how to best adapt to extreme climate is a critical issue facing modern societies worldwide. In "The Role of Diet in Resilience and Vulnerability to Climate Change among Early Agricultural…