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2013.11.11 06:29
Origins of cattle farming uncovered in China
An international team of researchers, co-led by scientists at the University of York and Yunnan Normal University, has produced the first multi-disciplinary evidence for management of cattle populations in northern China, around the same time cattle domestication took place in the Near East, over...
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2013.11.11 06:28
A new scorpion species from ancient Lycia
Scientists discover and describe a new species of scorpion, Euscorpius lycius, coming from the area of ancient Lycia, nowadays the regions of the Mugla and Antalya Provinces in Southwestern Turkey. With the new discovery, the scorpions from this genus found in the country go up to a total of five...
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2013.11.11 06:26
Thessalian lake yields important discoveries
A Hellenistic farm-house, a Neolithic settlement, an inn, a ceramic furnace and scores of artifacts were discovered by archaeologists at Lake Karla located in Thessaly in central Greece. These discoveries were made during the course of rescue excavations before the lake is turned into a major water...
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2013.11.06 06:43
Civilizations rise and fall on the quality of their soil
Great civilisations have fallen because they failed to prevent the degradation of the soils on which they were founded. The modern world could suffer the same fate.
Great civilisations have fallen because they failed to prevent the degradation of the soils
on which they...
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2013.11.06 06:42
Genetic study proves Israel's wild boars were brought by the Philistines
Tel Aviv University researchers say animals descended from pigs brought by the Philistines 3,000 years ago
Wild Boar Sows [Credit: Steve Garvie/WikiCommons]
Wild boars look more or less the same in Israel as they do anywhere else: stalky and hairy with big heads,...
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2013.11.02 16:25
King Solomon's Silver? Southern Phoenician Hacksilber Hoards and the Location of Tarshish
Evidence from silver hoards found in Phoenicia is linking Tarshish, the legendary source of King Solomon's silver, to ores in the western Mediterranean. Biblical passages sometimes describe this lost land as a supplier of metals (especially silver) to Phoenician sailors who traded in the service of...
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2013.11.01 08:00
Naukratis: Ancient Greeks in Egypt
How did ancient Egypt shape the development of Greek culture? What was the impact of the encounter with Greece on Egypt? How did these completely different cultures interact? These questions have been asked for more than a century. Excavations at the ancient city of Naukratis have been a key source...
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2013.10.31 22:20
1,500-year-old Roman gold coin unearthed at Chinese tomb
Archaeologists conducting excavations at an ancient tomb in Luoyang, Henan Province, China, found Monday a gold coin from the East Roman era estimated to be over 1,500 years old.
The finding, reports China National News, is yet another proof of a long history of exchange between the Eastern and the...
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2013.10.31 22:18
Ancient mural may be first picture of volcanic blast
Was humanity's first depiction of a volcanic eruption daubed on the wall of a house in Turkey 8500 years ago? Geological evidence now supports this controversial claim.
The inhabitants of Catalhoyuk may have seen Hasan Dag erupt
[Credit: Images and...
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2013.10.31 22:16
Mediterranean Roman ports to be investigated
The University of Southampton has been awarded €2.49 million (£2.1 million) by the European Research Council to study a large network of Roman ports stretching from Turkey in the east, to Spain in the west.
The Mediterranean in c125 AD [Credit: Dr. Jean-Paul...
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