Archeology
Discovered a more segment of the Great Wall
Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a piece of the Great Wall lying across the Mongolian border, which has never been discovered before.
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How do Vikings go to sea in cloudy days?
The Vikings navigate the sea with sundial clocks. But in the gloomy days, the sundial is also useless. Many researchers wonder how they overcome it? One theory is that t…
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Cleopatra is an ugly person
Films and literary works are all over Cleopatra's beautiful praise, who is considered a measure of beauty. But an ancient coin showed that the Egyptian queen had a beake…
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Big dinosaurs have tiny genes
When studying the genome size of 31 extinct dinosaurs and birds, the researchers found that predators like T-rex have relatively small genomes.
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Researching human ancestors with a tomography machine
A very high resolution tomography machine called XtremeCT was originally designed to study osteoporosis in astronauts, which has been used to study the teeth and teeth o…
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Residents of the South Pacific region originated from Vietnam?
Scientists from Durham University and Oxford University (UK) have studied the DNA of wild boar and hog pigs in the South Pacific and raised new hypotheses about the orig…
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Finding dinosaurs living in caves
Fossil hunters found traces of tiny dinosaurs nesting in a cave. The discovery shows that the once-dominant Earth reptiles may have chosen a place to live
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Discovered flying lizards that lived 125 million years ago in China
Chinese paleontologists discovered in the province of Liaoning (Northeast China) the intact fossil of a flying ancient lizard: a film that stretches out similarly to cav…
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Whale fossils found in vineyards
The largest whale fossil was discovered in Italy in one of the country's best vineyards. The five-million-year-old whale skeleton, 10 meters long, was dug up in Tuscany,…
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Ancient crocodiles swim like fish
Fossils of a massive amphibian with crocodile body and fish tail have been unearthed in Oregon, USA. Scientists believe that the body of the creature has been moved in t…
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The secret of the magic transmission ability of the Greek theater
The sound of the famous ancient Greek theater Epidaurus is wonderful: The voice of an actor standing on an open stage can be heard in rows of seats 60 meters away. Archi…
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Pyramid built from stone blocks ... fake!
According to Egyptian experts, the Maadi area is a place to supply stone for the construction of pyramids. But the chemical composition of limestone here is quite differ…
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Pre-men like fat women
The boys in the cave period enjoyed girls with a slender body. Dozens of fire stone figurines excavated at an ancient hunting area in Poland have revealed that.
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Pyramid was built from the inside out?
So far scientists have wondered how the Egyptians could put about 3 million stones, averaging 2.5 tons per platform to build the Great Pyramid of Cheops (aka Khufu). Mea…
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Accidentally turned into ... mummy
The intact dried corpses were found in the city of Guanajuato (Mexico) without a noble background from the royal court. In contrast, they belong to the poorest class of…