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Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found

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14 hours ago | not rated yet | 5

(AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum ...

Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin (Update)

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Nov 20, 2009 | 1.7 / 5 (22) | 23

(AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading ...

New insights into the life of the Maya

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Nov 16, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (15) | 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient artifacts are almost always concerned with rich and powerful religious and political leaders, but new excavations of an ancient Maya site have unearthed a pyramid decorated with murals ...

BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc

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Nov 19, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (8) | 2

A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno. ...

Extinct moa rewrites New Zealand's history

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Nov 18, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The evolutionary history of New Zealand's many extinct flightless moa has been re-written in the first comprehensive study of more than 260 sub-fossil specimens to combine all known genetic, ...

'Hobbits' are a new human species -- according to the statistical analysis of fossils

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Nov 19, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (10) | 0

Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using ...

Study Pits Man v Machine in Piecing Together 425-Million Years Old Jigsaw

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Nov 16, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study pitting academic expertise against a computer in recreating a 425 million-year old jigsaw puzzle has discovered that there is no substitute for wisdom born out of experience.

Valley in Jordan inhabited and irrigated for 13,000 years

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Nov 18, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 0

You can make major discoveries by walking across a field and picking up every loose item you find. Dutch researcher Eva Kaptijn succeeded in discovering - based on 100,000 finds - that the Zerqa Valley in Jordan had been ...

Heart disease found in Egyptian mummies

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Nov 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies, some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting that the factors causing heart attack and stroke are not only modern ones; they afflicted ancient people, ...