MUFC Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 I want to visit this area. It looks really interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted November 25, 2023 Author Subscriber Share Posted November 25, 2023 Quote Lost Stirling city walls' tower found during excavations The remains of a lost defensive tower in Stirling’s historic city walls have been uncovered by a team led by council archaeologist Dr Murray Cook..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted November 29, 2023 Share Posted November 29, 2023 On 18/11/2023 at 15:49, MUFC said: I want to visit this area. It looks really interesting. Interesting to see a different view on Hasidism because you really only get horror stories about sexual abuse, domestic abuse, abuse from those in power (the rabbbis), though I've only watched the first five minutes maybe it gets worse... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted January 2 Author Subscriber Share Posted January 2 Quote The big archaeology discoveries of 2023 The story of humanity stretches back thousands of years and thanks to archaeologists around the world, new pages are being added to the record every year. In 2023, these history scientists uncovered new and interesting details about individual humans and entire cultures. From Egyptian mummies being subjected to CT scans to cash prizes for deciphering carbonised scrolls from Mount Vesuvius, archaeologists have been hard at work in 2023. Here are some of the most fascinating stories exploring the ancient world covered by Cosmos this year… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted January 13 Author Subscriber Share Posted January 13 36 minutes ago, MUFC said: What, you got one for sale? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted January 20 Author Subscriber Share Posted January 20 Quote Parthenon centaur has a mystery head feature A centaur head from Parthenon temple, National Museum of Denmark. Note the brown stain over half of the face Credit: John Lee, National Museum of Denmark A marble head belonging to a centaur statue from the ancient Greek Parthenon has a substance on it that continues to stump scientists. The head, which has been housed in Denmark since 1688, is partly coated with a thin brown film that matches similar coatings found on parts of the Parthenon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted February 2 Author Subscriber Share Posted February 2 Quote Human fossil discovery upends history of Palaeolithic Europe A surprise discovery of human remains in a German cave has “fundamentally changed” the story of our species’ migration into Europe. It suggests that Homo sapiens likely made it to Northern Europe 47,500 years ago, overlapping humans’ presence with Neanderthals. The detailed analysis of stone tools from a re-excavated cave near the German village of Ranis, about 240km southwest of Berlin, was conducted by a large group led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Their findings were published today across three major research papers in the journal Nature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted February 6 Author Subscriber Share Posted February 6 Quote Rare 3D tree fossil “unlike any alive today” A 352-million-year-old tree fossil has been discovered in Canada which resembles nothing that we have ever seen before. The find is also very rare because, unlike most fossilised trees, it shows what the overall tree’s form would have looked like. Usually, only the trunks of trees fossilise. This doesn’t reveal the tree’s canopy or how it might have looked overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted April 27 Author Subscriber Share Posted April 27 Quote Giant raptor found in China Massive dinosaur fossil footprints have been found in southern China. They were left behind by a raptor which might be among the largest ever....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted April 29 Author Subscriber Share Posted April 29 Quote Roman object that baffled experts to go on show at Lincoln Museum A mysterious Roman artefact found during an amateur archaeological dig is going on public display in Lincolnshire for the first time. The object is one of only 33 dodecahedrons ever found in Britain, and the first to have been discovered in the Midlands. It was found in Norton Disney, near Lincoln, in the summer of 2023. The artefact is also one of the largest ever found, measuring about 3in (8cm) tall and weighing half a pound (245g). The 12-sided object was unearthed by a group of local volunteers...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted May 16 Author Subscriber Share Posted May 16 Quote Massive Neolithic settlement found in Serbia A 7,000-year-old Neolithic settlement has been found in Serbia. It is among largest Late Stone Age settlements found in the country. The settlement was found near the Tamiš River in northeast Serbia’s Banat region which it shares with Hungary and Romania. The Serbian part of the Banat is flat and marshy. It includes the largest area of sandy terrain in Europe – a 300-km2 area called the Deliblato Sands which used to be part of a prehistoric desert. The newly discovered settlement is only 40 km northwest of the sands, outside the village of Jarkovac....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted May 20 Author Subscriber Share Posted May 20 Quote A brief history of the Persian polymath who gave his name to algorithms Algorithms have become integral to our lives. From social media apps to Netflix, algorithms learn your preferences and prioritise the content you are shown. Google Maps and artificial intelligence are nothing without algorithms. So, we’ve all heard of them, but where does the word “algorithm” even come from? Over 1,000 years before the internet and smartphone apps, Persian scientist and polymath Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī invented the concept of algorithms. In fact, the word itself comes from the Latinised version of his name, “algorithmi”. And, as you might suspect, it’s also related to algebra. Largely lost to time.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted June 2 Author Subscriber Share Posted June 2 Quote New dinosaur is only the fourth to be described in Zimbabwe Fossils found on the shore of Lake Kariba in northwest Zimbabwe have been identified as a new dinosaur which lived about 210 million years ago. Musanka sanyatiensis is described in a paper published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. The creature is known from the remains of a single hind leg which includes its thigh, shin and ankle bones...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted June 3 Author Subscriber Share Posted June 3 Quote Photographic history nearly lost in WWII a window into the future of East Antarctica A nearly 100-year history of East Antarctic aerial photos has given a unique perspective to the region’s history amid the greatest challenge for the southernmost continent. Combining historical photos, including some dating back 87 years, researchers have compiled a short-term evolutionary history of glaciers in East Antarctica, generally considered the more stable Antarctic half. The photography of 2,000km of coastline overlayed with current satellite technology shows two contrasting stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted June 11 Author Subscriber Share Posted June 11 Quote Pipe dig reveals Roman and Bronze Age settlements Evidence of settlements dating back 3,000 years have been discovered near a reservoir. They have been unearthed by archaeologists digging ahead of the construction of a 19.5km (12-mile) water pipeline close to Abberton Reservoir, near Colchester. Artefacts found include Roman coins and pottery from the Iron and Bronze Ages....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted August 4 Author Subscriber Share Posted August 4 Quote Exquisite fossil worm from 520 million years ago preserves brain A fossil of a larva which lived more than half a billion years ago might shed light on the earliest ancestors of modern insects, spiders, crabs and centipedes. Named Youti yuanshi, the fossil is described in a new paper published in Nature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted August 6 Author Subscriber Share Posted August 6 Quote How was Egypt’s oldest pyramid built? Experts reveal new theory Nearly years ago, ancient Egyptians revolutionised the way in which humans shape the world around them. A new paper published in the PLOS ONE journal explains that ancient Egyptians probably became the world’s first hydraulics engineers to do this. The research centres on the oldest of Egypt’s iconic pyramids: the funerary complex of King Djoser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted August 20 Author Subscriber Share Posted August 20 Quote Stonehenge’s 6-tonne Altar Stone was transported from Scotland How was Stonehenge built in ancient Britain 5,000 years ago? evidence suggests the Late Stone Age people who made the colossal structure would have to have used advanced transport methods to move the stones even further than previously thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted September 3 Author Subscriber Share Posted September 3 Quote Discovery of houses where Iron Age and Viking Age people visited their dead Three mortuary houses in Norway dating to the Iron Age and Viking Age are slowly revealing ancient funerary rituals. The sites were discovered in 2019 and 2020 when a road was being constructed in the village of Vinjeøra, central Norway. They date between 500 and 950 CE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted September 29 Author Subscriber Share Posted September 29 Quote World’s oldest cheese found in China next to Bronze Age mummies Ever had an aged cheddar or parmesan that was extra sharp and thought – how old is too old for cheese? Well, the aging just got a whole lot longer. A cheese found in northwestern China is 3,600 years old and is the subject of a paper published today in the journal Cell. If that’s not enough to spoil your appetite, the scientists report that the cheese was found alongside mummified corpses in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang province. Luckily, they resisted the urge to have a nibble, instead subjecting the Bronze Age cheese to a smorgasbord of tests. “This is the oldest known cheese sample ever discovered,” says corresponding author Qiaomei Fu, from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. “Food items like cheese are extremely difficult to preserve over thousands of years, making this a rare and valuable opportunity. Studying the ancient cheese in great detail can help us better understand our ancestors’ diet and culture,” she adds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted November 10 Author Subscriber Share Posted November 10 Quote Ancient DNA debunks assumptions about Pompeii’s famed body casts The DNA of people killed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius at Pompeii has turned traditional ideas of the victims’ identities and relationships on their head. Located just outside of modern-day Naples, Italy, the Roman town of Pompeii was buried under volcanic material in 79 CE. The ash, which compacted around the bodies of many of the dying, preserved their outlines as they decayed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted 14 hours ago Author Subscriber Share Posted 14 hours ago Quote Life in Medieval England: 10 Surprising Realities You Didn’t Learn in School 1/11 Medieval England often conjures up images of knights in shining armor, grand castles, and lively markets, but the truth of life during this time was far more intricate—and much stranger. The Middle Ages were a period defined by extraordinary challenges, resourceful solutions, and traditions that seem almost alien to us today. While history tends to spotlight kings and queens, it was the ordinary people who truly shaped daily life. From unconventional remedies for illness to unexpected culinary habits, the medieval world was a patchwork of the ingenious, the bizarre, and the surprisingly relatable. These ten facts peel back the layers of myth to reveal just how fascinating and peculiar life in medieval England really was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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