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Earliest known Hebrew text in Proto-Canaanite script discovered in area where David slew Goliath
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Nov 03, 2008 |
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The earliest known Hebrew text written in a Proto-Canaanite script has been discovered by Hebrew University archaeologists in an ancient city in the area where David slew Goliath – the earliest Judean city found to date. ...
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First archaeological survey of Paphlagonia published
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Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Project Paphlagonia is the first fully published multi-period archaeological and historical survey of the little explored region of north-central Turkey. Today this region includes the provinces ...
Israeli archaeologists find ancient fortification
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Sep 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Archaeologists digging in Jerusalem have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example of massive fortifications ever found in the city, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday.
Rethinking monogamy in Western Canada
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- You hear it all the time, especially in debates concerning same-sex marriage and polygamy: The biggest threat to the social order is the breakdown of monogamous marriage.
The method of repairing Cadiz's walls has hardly changed since the 17th century
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May 11, 2009 |
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In the year 1596, a sacking at the hands of the Count of Essex almost destroyed the city of Cadiz. Since then, authorities have focused their efforts on establishing a barrier between the city and the sea, ...
Topical treatment wipes out herpes with RNAi
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Whether condoms or abstinence, most efforts to prevent sexually transmitted diseases have a common logic: keep the pathogen out of your body altogether. While this approach is certainly reasonable enough, it doesn't help ...
King Solomon's (copper) mines? Deep dig finds confluence of science and the Bible
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Oct 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Did the Bible's King David and his son Solomon control the copper industry in present-day southern Jordan? Though that remains an open question, the possibility is raised once again by research ...
Biofilms use chemical weapons
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Jul 23, 2008 |
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Bacteria rarely come as loners; more often they grow in crowds and squat on surfaces where they form a community together. These so-called biofilms develop on any surface that bacteria can attach themselves ...
FSU classics professor exploring a 'lost' city of the Mycenaeans
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Mar 11, 2008 |
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Along an isolated, rocky stretch of Greek shoreline, a Florida State University researcher and his students are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged, “lost” harbor town believed to have been built ...
Virtual Qumran Sheds New Light on Dead Sea Scrolls Discovery Site
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Jun 19, 2007 |
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The mysterious archaeological ruins located paces from where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered 60 years ago served first as a fortress before being adopted by Jewish religious sect, two UCLA researchers ...
Nano technique allows precise injection of living cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Specialized pulsed lasers have been used to inject individual cells with a variety of materials, but little is known about how this type of injection might affect living cells. For the first time, researchers at Rensselaer ...
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