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Discover Ancient Treasures in Dragon Gaming’s Fortunes of Pharaohs
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Ancient Poppy Seeds And Willow Wood Offer Clues To Ice Sheet’s Last Meltdown
As we focused our microscope on the soil sample for the first time, bits of organic material came into view: a tiny poppy seed, the compound eye of an insect, broken willow twigs and spikemoss spores. Dark-colored spheres produced by soil fungi dominated our view.These were unmistakably the remains of an arctic tundra ecosystem– and
Rock carvings of ancient Egyptian pharaohs found underwater near Aswan
Archaeologists found stone carvings from ancient times during a diving expedition near Aswan, Egypt. (Image credit: Courtesy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities) During a diving expedition in the Nile River, archaeologists in Egypt discovered rock carvings featuring depictions of several ancient Egyptian pharaohs, along with hieroglyphic inscriptions. A joint French-Egyptian team found the
Ancient Snake and Centipede Carvings in South America Are among World’s Largest Rock Engravings
Enormous engraved rock art of anacondas, rodents and other animals along the Orinoco River in Colombia and Venezuela may have been used to mark territory 2,000 years agoBy Stephanie PappasArtistic impressions of a mythical snake traversing the Orinoco River. Dr Philip RirisSkim along the Orinoco River on the border between Venezuela and Colombia, and you
Ancient geese stood 3 metres tall and weighed as much as a cow
An artistic reconstruction of Genyornis newtoni, an ancient relative of geeseIllustration by Jacob C. Blokland Australia’s prehistoric thunder birds – once thought to be the ancestors of emus – were, in fact, the biggest geese that ever lived. The group has been reclassified following the analysis of a 45,000-year-old Genyornis newtoni skull found in a
AI chip built using ancient Samsung tech is claimed to be as fast as Nvidia A100 GPU — prototype is smaller and much more power efficient but is it just too good to be true?
(Image credit: Getty Images) Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have unveiled an AI chip that they claim can match the speed of Nvidia's A100 GPU but with a smaller size and significantly lower power consumption. The chip was developed using Samsung's 28-nanometer manufacturing process, a technology considered relatively old
Environment A reconstruction of 66 million years of climate history indicates global temperature may be even more sensitive to carbon dioxide levels than current models estimate By Alison George Illustration of Earth 65 million years ago, when CO2 levels were much higher than those of todayCHRIS BUTLER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY It is possibly the toughest question
Join the hunt for the ancient capital of Kush on Lost Cities Revealed with Albert Lin
Enlarge / NatGeo Explorer Albert Lin sits on the edge of a cliff during his quest to find the lost city of the Cloud Warriors in Peru.National Geographic/Disney/Rochio Lira National Geographic Explorer Albert Lin is something of a modern-day Indiana Jones, traveling to remote locations all over the globe to take part in a variety
Ancient ‘urine flasks’ for smelling (and tasting) pee uncovered in trash dump at Caesar’s forum in Rome
Plates recovered from Ospedale dei Fornari dump. (Image credit: Sovrintendenza Capitolina — The Caesar's Forum Project) A Renaissance-era trash dump discovered inside the Forum of Caesar in Rome is brimming with old medical supplies, including 500-year-old medicine bottles and urine flasks — containers used to collect patients' pee for medical analysis, a new study finds. Initially
Ancient DNA Study Elucidates Lost World of Indian Ocean Giant Tortoises
Before humans arrived, giant tortoises occurred on many islands in the western Indian Ocean. In new research, Professor Uwe Fritz from the Senckenberg Natural History Collections and colleagues aimed to decipher their diversity and biogeography. Their results suggest that the ancestor of the extinct Mascarene tortoises spread from Africa in the Eocene to now-sunken islands