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Ancient civilization cut path to its own demise
The ancient South American Nasca civilization may have caused its own demise by clear-cutting huge swaths of forest, a new study has found. The civilization disappeared mysteriously around 1,500 years ago, after apparently prospering during the first...
Emperor Nero's Rotating Banquet Hall Discovered By Archaeologists
Archaeologists in Rome have discovered a rotating banquet hall, believed to be that of the emperor Nero, which rotated night and day to impress his guests. The rotating hall is mentioned by the Roman historian Suetonius. The Associated Press...
Tags: ancient, Rome, emperor, Nero, revolving, banquet, hall
'Death Stench' Is A Universal Ancient Warning Signal, Biologists Discover
The smell of recent death or injury that repels living relatives of insects has been identified as a truly ancient signal that functions to avoid disease or predators, biologists have discovered. David Rollo, professor of biology at McMaster University,...
Tags: Death Stench, Universal, Ancient, Warning, Signal, Biologists, Discovery, Evolution
Ancient Oceans Offer New Insight Into Origins Of Animal Life
Analysis of a rock type found only in the world's oldest oceans has shed new light on how large animals first got a foothold on Earth. A scientific team led by Professor Robert Frei at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and including scientists...
Tags: Ancient, Oceans, Insight, Origin, Animal, Life, Denmark
OUR Most ANCIENT ANCESTOR Found!
Paleontologists world over were stunned at the glance of the oldest human remains ever found. They have discovered prints made by individuals scrambling down the soils of an active volcano about 3, 50,000 years ago. Italian scientists identified...
Tags: Ancient, History, Remarkable, Ancestor, Humans, Discovered, Italy
505-Million-Year-Old CRITTER Discovered!
One of the most ancient fossils to date has been discovered by paleontologists recently. This has been one of the most baffling cases as it’s giant head and gill-covered body make this creature truly unique. Now the perfectly preserved...
Tags: Ancient, Million Years, Discovered, History, Fossils
Google Earth Reveals Ancient 1,000 Years Old Fish Trap !!
Google Earth Reveals Ancient 1,000 Years Old Fish Trap !! For a millennium it has lain undisturbed beneath the waves a stone's throw from one of Britain's best-loved beaches.But now modern technology has revealed this ancient fish trap, used at the time...
Tags: amazing, ancient, breaking news, discovery, earth, fish, giant, google, google earth, google maps, news, odd news, reef, allnews, stuffs, Technology
Iceman welcomes world mummies
Bolzano :: Italy | 8 months ago
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Italy's famed Iceman will get company this week as mummies from all over the world arrive for a major show in this northern Italian city. Joining the mummified neolithic hunter in his purpose-built museum here will be more than 60 mummies from Ancient...
It could also stop an airliner from crashing
London :: CA :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Synchrotron radiation is created by accelerating electrons through powerful magnetic fields, which causes them to throw off intense light, in wavelengths from infrared to X-rays. This light is many orders of magnitude brighter than that from conventional...
Tags: ancient
30 Mummies Found in Newly Discovered Tomb in Egypt
Egyptian archaeologists say they have discovered 30 mummies inside a 4,600-year-old tomb, in the latest round of excavations at the vast necropolis of Saqqara 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Cairo. Further Read: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090209/ap_on_sc/ml_egypt_mummy_discovery;_ylt=AhgR.omk505Bkb98RlYqmaIPLBIF
Tags: mummy, mummies, pyramid, tomb, egypt, sphynix, archaeologists, discover, excavations, cave, history, ancient, times, age
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