News tagged with ancient civilization
New insights into the life of the Maya
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Chinese culture at the crossroads
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Aug 20, 2009 |
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Recent archaeological discoveries from far-flung corners of China are forcing scientists to reconsider the origins of ancient Chinese civilization - and a new crop of young archaeologists are delving into the modern nation's ...
Indus script encodes language, reveals new study of ancient symbols
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Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
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Italian scientists find ancient Ur tablets
Mar 28, 2006 |
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Italian archeologists working in Iraq have announced the discovery of numerous stone tablets from the ancient civilization of Ur.
Google documents Iraqi museum treasures
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google is documenting Iraq's national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday.
Archeologists find new evidence on Edom
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Jun 14, 2006 |
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A ruined copper mine in Jordan is shedding new light on the biblical civilization known as Edom, The New York Times reports.
Researcher investigates ancient geology to understand human development, climate change
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To figure out how ancient humans adapted to their environment and constructed civilizations, you need to know the environment in which they lived -- including climate change over thousands of years.
Trophy heads reveal secrets about ancient South American civilization
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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The Nasca civilization is perhaps best known for the drawings its people etched onto the desert floor in southwest Peru, a massive and mysterious body of simple and intricate works that span several hundred square miles.
Archaeologist 'strikes gold' with finds of ancient nasca iron ore mine in Peru
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Jan 29, 2008 |
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A Purdue University archaeologist discovered an intact ancient iron ore mine in South America that shows how civilizations before the Inca Empire were mining this valuable ore.
High-tech imaging reveals hidden past in ancient texts
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It might simply look like a smudge, but even the slightest stain on the ancient writing surface of papyrus could obscure a revelation of a past civilization. Now, with the advent of high-tech imaging, some ...
Radiocarbon testing challenges understanding of ancient Hawaiian architecture
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Aug 01, 2006 |
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The development of monumental architecture and social complexity on the Hawaiian island of Maui occurred over a span of at least 500 years, according to the most detailed study to date on the antiquity of the ...
Pre-Columbian ruin discovered in Peru
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Jan 25, 2007 |
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U.S. explorer Keith Muscutt says archeologists discovered a pre-Columbian ruin in Peru.
Floating a big idea: Scientists demo ancient use of rafts to transport goods
Mar 19, 2008 |
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Oceangoing sailing rafts plied the waters of the equatorial Pacific long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, and carried tradegoods for thousands of miles all the way from modern-day Chile to western ...
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