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High-tech imaging reveals hidden past in ancient texts
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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 ...
Computer scientist to 'unroll' papyrus scrolls buried by Vesuvius
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May 24, 2009 |
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On Aug. 24, 79 A.D., Italy's Mount Vesuvius exploded, burying the Roman towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii under tons of super-heated ash, rock and debris in one of the most famous volcanic eruptions in history.
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Canna can: Ornamental eliminates pollutants from stormwater runoff
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Rapid population growth and urbanization have raised concerns over stormwater runoff contamination. Studies on watersheds indicate that excess nutrients, specifically nitrate-nitrogen and soluble reactive ...
Oldest evidence of leprosy found in 4000-year-old skeleton
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May 27, 2009 |
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A biological anthropologist from Appalachian State University working with an undergraduate student from Appalachian, an evolutionary biologist from UNC Greensboro, and a team of archaeologists from Deccan College (Pune, ...
X-rays used to reveal secrets of famous fossil
Feb 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- About 150 million years ago, an evolutionarily hybrid creature, a dinosaur on its way to becoming a bird, died in what is now Germany, and become fossilized in limestone.
Tutankhamen fathered twins
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Sep 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two foetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamen may have been twins and were very likely to have been the children of the teenage Pharaoh, according to the anatomist who first studied the mummified remains ...
New life given to ancient Egyptian texts stored at Stanford for decades
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Jul 23, 2008 |
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They're torn and faded and have the woven texture of a flattened Triscuit. At first glance, the ancient Egyptian texts look like scraps of garbage. And more than 2,000 years ago, that's exactly what they were—discarded ...
Computer scientists develop solutions for long-term storage of digital data
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Apr 21, 2008 |
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Although the digital age is well under way, one crucial detail remains to be worked out--how to store vast amounts of digital information in a way that allows future generations to recover it.
The voyage to America: Fossilized human feces reveals the first immigrants
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Apr 03, 2008 |
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A team of researchers led by Danish professor Eske Willerslev shows that the ancestors of the North American Indians who came from Asia were the first people in America, and that they were of neither European nor African ...
New threat to Lake Victoria?
Jan 29, 2008 |
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Two hydroelectricity dams appear to be threatening the health of Lake Victoria – and of the people living along its shores who depend on the lake for food. A new study¹ suggests that the dams’ systematic overuse of water ...
Leibniz Prize winners 2007 announced
Dec 13, 2006 |
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The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) has announced the winners of its 2007 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. At its meeting on 7 December 2006, the DFG Joint Committee named ten scientists ...
Emperors in crisis
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Dec 07, 2006 |
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Roman emperors had to implement drastic reforms in the third century. In order to retain their position of power in this turbulent period they developed an emperor ideology. With this they increasingly laid claim to their ...
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