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The erosion of giant mountain ranges provided crucial nutrients and oxygen that led to the growth and development of early life-forms, researchers say Giant mountain ranges rivaling the Himalayas in height and stretching across entire ‘supercontinents’ provided crucial boosts for the evolution of early life on the planet, Australian geologists revealed on Friday. Nutrients leached […]
Long-buried details from the 3,000-year-old mummified body of Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep I have been uncovered Researchers have “digitally unwrapped” the mummified body of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh using 3D computerized tomography (CT) scans, allowing the carefully preserved remains to be viewed for the first time in three millennia. The findings, published on Tuesday in the […]
A clay tablet retelling part of the ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ – one of thousands of ancient artifacts looted and smuggled out of Iraq, mostly to the US – has been formally returned to its rightful owner. The 3,500-year-old clay cuneiform tablet is the centerpiece of the program of repatriation of antiquities stolen from Iraq over […]