Ships have evolved a great deal throughout history: they are faster, sturdier and more reliable, but there is one thing that hasn't changed from the early ages of the ship concept, and that's the anchor, the rudimentary system that holds a ship in one place. But the very heavy metal piece which has been aro... |
3 December 2008
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Ancient pottery belonging to the Phoenician civilization has been discovered at a dig site in Lebanon, by a mixed Lebanese and Spanish team of archaeologists. The largest of the earthen recipients found were used to store earthly remains of the dead, as the study indicates. Over 100 such jars, thought to be about 2,... |
13 November 2008
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A chalk carved toy-like figurine representing a pig or a hedgehog was discovered lying next to the body of a child that was either stillborn or dead at a very young age, next to the Stonehenge monument. The figurine was calculated to be more than 2 millennia in age, and it appears to have been sculpted in the memory... |
23 October 2008
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Since the dawn of civilization, people have been building tunnels for accessing tombs or underground quarries, or in the hill slopes for allowing the flow of water from porous rocks. Romans were skilled tunnel builders, who made several kilometers long underground passages using the work of slaves. They made a 5.6 km... |
11 January 2008
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You cannot live without French fries and chips, can you? Well, it seems this has something to do with our remote ancestry. Anthropologist Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar of the University of Southern California has found for the first time proofs that chimps dig by using tools in order to eat tubers, roots, and bulbs, a fi... |
14 November 2007
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Dinosaurs have fascinated everybody since their discovery, but this was mainly due to their sheer size. In time, scientists discovered really interesting things about them: some were feathered, they were warm-blooded, they cared for their offspring, some had "hands", some flew...Now researchers have discovered a new ... |
21 March 2007
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