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Scientists Used Lasers and Citizen Scientists to Find a “Lost World” of Giant Trees
3+ week, 21+ hour ago (297+ words) After ten years of fieldwork in Taiwan’s remote mountain regions, researchers have identified an 84.1-meter (276-foot) Taiwania fir, now recognized as the tallest tree documented in East Asia. The team also found dense forests containing dozens of giant Taiwania firs,…...
Scientists Have a Plan to Detect Exotic Aliens, New Gamma Wave Glasses, and an Ancient Roman 'Megastructure' Resurfaces
3+ week, 4+ day ago (396+ words) The Debrief Scientists Have a Plan to Detect Exotic Aliens, New Gamma Wave Glasses, and an Ancient Roman ‘Megastructure’ Resurfaces This week in stories we’re covering at The Debrief: Scientists have a new plan that could help them detect alien…...
Archaeologists Unsealed an Ancient Egyptian Tomb and Discovered Something Completely Unexpected Inside
3+ week, 4+ day ago (694+ words) Spanish archaeologists excavating an ancient Egyptian tomb in the Theban Necropolis opposite Luxor have discovered an unexpected order to how the 16 mummified human remains were placed within it over several centuries. The team studying chamber three of tomb TT 209 also…...
4,000-Year-Old Tomb of Ancient Egyptian ‘Keeper of the Secrets’ Discovered at Saqqara
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (587+ words) More than 4,000 years ago, an Egyptian official named Sekhentiu-Ptah held a collection of titles that placed him remarkably close to royal power. He oversaw the king’s works and documents, supervised scribes, and even served as the “Keeper of the Secrets…...
A New Discovery at Göbekli Tepe Could Reshape Our Understanding of One of the Ancient World’s Most Perplexing Sites
3+ week, 20+ hour ago (391+ words) The enigmatic Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, home to some of the world’s earliest advanced megalithic construction and sophisticated symbolic art, continues to surprise archaeologists. Since the discovery of megalithic features during excavations at the site led by…...
Newly Deciphered 1500-Year-Old Inscriptions Reveal Ancient Imperial Death Decree
4+ week, 1+ day ago (692+ words) Researchers from the University of Warsaw have successfully identified 1500-year-old inscriptions on an ancient Anatolian wall that detail charges by local citizens of tax fraud by local officials and a rare Roman imperial death decree against those found perpetrating the…...
Lost for 1800 Years, a Mysterious Altar Linked to an Ancient Roman Cult Resurfaces as Drought Drains Europe’s Rivers
3+ week, 19+ hour ago (586+ words) An unexpected discovery by archaeologists has revealed an ancient cult object in the suddenly shallow waters of one of Europe’s longest rivers. The discovery involves a portion of a limestone altar found near Dunaújváros in Hungary, uncovered during surveys of…...
900-Year-Old DNA Reveals Cacao Reached Ancient Georgia, Rewriting Chocolate’s History in North America
1+ week, 3+ day ago (684+ words) Nine centuries ago, people gathered at what is today recognized as the Etowah Indian Mounds site, located roughly 40 miles northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, for enormous community feasts. They ate, drank, and eventually discarded broken pottery into pits that would become…...
Mysterious Origins of Britain's 4,000-Year-Old 'Devils’ Arrows' Stone Monument Have Finally Been Solved
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (637+ words) A Curtin University-led research team has successfully identified the mysterious origin of several 4,000-year-old 25-ton stones, which ancient architects used to construct Britain’s iconic Devil’s Arrows, as Birmingham Rocks in North Yorkshire, over 11 miles (18 kilometers) from the monument’s location. The…...
A Neanderthal Gene May Be Making Some Modern Humans Bigger and More Muscular
4+ week, 18+ hour ago (510+ words) Some modern humans may owe their larger body size and greater muscle mass in part to a growth hormone receptor inherited from Neanderthals, according to new research. Scientists say the genetic variant was passed to our ancestors through interbreeding between…...