Fragmentary iron helmet with traces of paint and patina San Vincente del Raspigue, Spain—According to A gizmodo According to the report, a new assessment, including radiocarbon dating, of five of the 43 helmets discovered under about 20 feet of water off the northeastern coast of Spain in 1990 indicates that they were made between the …
For more than 30 years, a remarkable collection of helmets believed to date from the Roman period has been recovered from the waters off Spain. New research has now overturned that belief, revealing that the artefacts are in fact medieval and provide rare information about arms movement, trade and military activity in the Mediterranean during …
It started with a plate of ginger chicken. In the late 1970s, physicist Richard Feynman – known for his earlier work manhattan project – Sitting down to lunch with my friend Ralph Leighton at a restaurant in Glendale, California. Leighton was torn between ordering his usual favorites, or risking something new. Feynman turned the choice …
For decades, tiny grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people would clean their teeth with a stick or fiber, or ease gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks.” some researchers also It is said to be the oldest human habit. But our new findings, published in American Journal …
A new study suggests that natives of Peru may be able to digest potatoes and other starches more easily than the rest of the world. Scientists have discovered that indigenous Andean people have more copies of genes for saliva-based starch digestion enzymes – called amylases – than any other population worldwide. natural selection Amylase genes …
Vaulted Room of a Villa, Rome, Italy Rome, Italy—A Second Century Advertisement The villa has been rediscovered under the Cavour Scientific High School, located near the Colosseum, biology Report. Students found the structure while exploring underground tunnels and notified a teacher, who contacted archaeologists. When the school building was constructed at the end of the …
Burial, Tell Kom Azizah, Egypt Behera, Egypt – Excavations at the Tell Kom Aziza site, near the coast of northern Egypt, have revealed a cemetery from the Greek and Roman periods, according to a ahram online Report. The necropolis is located on the site of an Old Kingdom settlement dating back approximately 4,000 years. Sherif …
Oslo, Norway-science in norway The wreck of a ship carrying a cargo of eighteenth-century Chinese porcelain has been found almost intact under about 2,000 feet of water off the coast of Norway, reports say. “We often find cargo and freight, but it is usually broken or covered by marine growth,” said Sven Ahrens of the …
Researchers have identified a giant new species of long-necked dinosaur in Thailand that is now believed to be the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Southeast Asia. The discovery comes from a collaboration led by scientists from University College London (UCL), Mahasarakham University, Suranaree University of Technology and Thailand’s Sirindhorn Museum. The dinosaur was described in …