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With 26 competing teams, the Google Lunar X Prize is definitely the most important competition ever conducted with the express purpose of reaching and exploring the lunar surface. NASA has recently released a series of guidelines calling on these competitors not to target historic sites on the Moon.
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25 May 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Scientists conducting an investigation in the Gulf of Mexico have recently come across the wreck of a wooden-hulled ship that apparently sank around 200 years ago. The researchers were able to investigate the vessel using a Robotic Underwater Vehicle (ROV).
The scientific expedition, conducted by experts with the US... |
17 May 2012
05:18 GMT |
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Investigators have recently discovered five unusual telescopes in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The instruments, 3 to 5 inches long (80 to 140 millimeters), were fashioned out of cattle metatarsal bones, and were once thought to be a luxury item.
Five such instruments were discovered, and all were determined to date b... |
27 March 2012
05:23 GMT |
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As the video embedded at the end of this article will confirm, a skywatcher recently discovered an interesting object near Mercury, apparently moving in the same direction as the planet itself. The unidentified object might very well be an UFO, or it could be a light artifact.
YouTube user siniXster says that the vi... |
7 December 2011
03:50 GMT |
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Discovering artifacts left behind by intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations is a nearly-impossible task. While he does not doubt that aliens exist, British physicist Stephen Wolfram says identifying even some of their signals is close to impossible due to a variety of issues. The first and most important it that ... |
25 August 2011
10:06 GMT |
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Scientists at NASA have lately began to wonder as to whether the planet-seeking telescope they operate would be capable of picking up signs of alien civilizations, and the artifacts that their macro-engineering of the Galaxy or the Universe would leave behind.
Some experts have proposed a long time ago that an an... |
14 May 2011
03:31 GMT |
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Analysis of artifacts dating back to the Stone Age have revealed that our ancestors most likely ate a rather balanced diet, and not just meat, as originally proposed. Experts believed until now that ancient hominids used a prehistoric version of the Atkins diet, which avoids the use of carbohydrates such as sugar,&nb... |
19 October 2010
04:00 GMT |
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Researches believe they may have stumbled upon some of the oldest signs of burying rituals ever discovered, which appear to have been left behind some 5,000 years ago.The artifact the experts studied was the Otzi skeleton, which was discovered in the Alps some 19 years ago. The Iceman was until now thought to have be... |
27 August 2010
02:02 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the University of Southampton (USouthampton) announced recently that they would develop and perfect a new imaging system for looking at ancient artifacts within a year. The technique will be used to gain more insight into the history underlying these objects, some of which have only been... |
9 June 2010
08:53 GMT |
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Due to higher annual temperatures, more ice melts each year near the Arctic, in northern Canada. The location, which was inhabited by humans centuries ago, is currently beginning to reveal numerous artifacts and other signs of civilization, that are exposed by the melting ice patches. The tools were generally encased... |
27 April 2010
04:04 GMT |
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American archaeologists working on the largest dig site in Italy ever opened for the past 50 years are currently trembling with excitement. They have recently unearthed a very intricate and weird artifact, that was buried until last summer in what was once a city neighboring the capital of the Roman Empire. The artif... |
30 March 2010
06:07 GMT |
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While investigating the ancient Phoenician settlement of Lixus, near Larache, in Morocco, Spanish researchers at the University of Valencia (UV) discovered in 2005 an amazing artifact. The vessel was a 2,000-year-old amphora, which was apparently used for ritual purposes. It was sealed using a special mixture of subs... |
21 January 2010
07:07 GMT |
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Archaeologists working at the ancient Egyptian burial site Saqqara, near the old capital city of Memphis, announce the discovery of the largest tomb at the necropolis. The relic dates back to the 26th Dynasty, and is estimated to be about 2,500 years old, experts who got a chance to look at the monument say. A number... |
5 January 2010
05:33 GMT |
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Scientists investigating a cave system in Oregon came across what they describe as the oldest known artifact in the America. Preliminary analysis indicates that the scraper-like tool belonged to a group of people that lived 14, 230 years ago, adding further substance to the idea that the widespread Clovis culture, wh... |
6 November 2009
19:21 GMT |
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Museums around the world are currently starting to introduce a new type of exhibits in their collections, and namely the 3D models of existing works. Each valuable artifact is scanned using advanced technology, and is then faithfully replicated in a three-dimensional, digital environment. This is done so that, i... |
4 November 2009
19:21 GMT |
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The Shroud of Turin is one of the most important artifacts for Christians, as it is believed to be the burial cloth with which Jesus Christ was entombed after being taken down from the cross. It was discovered before the 13th century, although no one can say for sure exactly when. References to it can be interpreted ... |
6 October 2009
02:25 GMT |
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Historians knew that the Romans maintained a strong presence in what is now Germany during the peak of their empire, but a new find seems to prove that their level of establishment in the region was a lot higher than first though. At the bottom of a well in the renowned archaeological site Waldgirmes – an ancie... |
28 August 2009
06:59 GMT |
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New found archaeological proof seems to indicate the fact that music was an integrated part of the human culture as early as the time when the first modern humans colonized Europe, some 35,000 years ago. Recent finds placed the oldest known instruments less than 30,000 years ago, but the bird-bone and ivory flutes th... |
25 June 2009
02:37 GMT |
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The large online marketplace site eBay, which was launched about a decade ago, has made archaeologists fear from the start that the number of looted antiquities that could be moved via the Internet would increase considerably. For example, Charles Stanish, who is a UCLA archaeologist with more than 25 years of experi... |
5 May 2009
07:00 GMT |
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Recent digs conducted in South Lanarkshire, near the city of Biggar, in Scotland, have revealed some of the oldest known traces of the Scot population that moved to this area after the end of the Ice Age. According to the archaeologists in charge of the excavations, the objects are very similar to tools found in the ... |
10 April 2009
10:06 GMT |
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At this point, the only thing Afghanistan is known for is the fact that it's the home of the Talibans and that the war there is becoming increasingly difficult for the Coalition forces. Still, there is more to the country than meets the eye, at least as far as historical sites go. Since war broke out in 2002, va... |
9 March 2009
02:46 GMT |
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On Sunday, The Guardian newspaper announced that a building company working on a housing project west of Glasgow, in an area called the Pillanflatt, found the possible remains of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland, one of the most famous monarchs to have ever ruled the country. He reigned supreme from 1306 to his deat... |
24 February 2009
03:43 GMT |
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Farmers in certain areas of the UK are now in a very awkward position, as they have to battle looters on their own lands. Furthermore, the crooks, armed with metal detectors, are wreaking havoc amidst Britain's invaluable architectural sites, looking for treasures to sell to private collectors, who pay large sum... |
17 February 2009
16:01 GMT |
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