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5000-year-old Cochno Stone carving may be revealed A set of mysterious, 5,000-year-old rock carvings could see the light of day again, after being buried 50 years ago to protect them from vandals. The Cochno Stone in West Dunbartonshire bears what is considered to be the finest example of Bronze Ag...
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Binchester Roman Fort
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Excavations at a Roman site in County Durham have revealed the 'Pompeii of the north', say archaeologists. The spectacular discoveries at Binchester Roman Fort near Bishop Auckland have uncovered some of the most well preserved remnants of an empire dating back some 1800 years ago, including one...
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Temple of Artemis
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The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was destroyed on July 21, 356 BC in an act of arson committed by Herostratus. According to the story, his motivation was fame at any cost, thus the term herostratic fame. The Ephesians, outraged, consigned Herostratus to torture and his name to oblivion. Theopompus l...
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Taj Mahal
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Taj Mahal will turn blue on Sunday night The Union health ministry and anti-diabetes activists have managed to convince the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to give permission to light up the Taj Mahal to spread awareness against a disease that affects nearly 51 million Indians. [url=http://...
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Cave of Pont d'Arc
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'Prehistoric Sistine Chapel' gets world heritage status A cave in southern France dubbed the "prehistoric Sistine Chapel" has been added to Unesco's World Heritage list. The 1,000 drawings carved in the walls of the Decorated Cave of Pont d'Arc, or Grotte Chauvet, are 36,000 years old...
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UK icebreaker
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New icebreaker for UK polar science UK science is to get one of the biggest, most capable polar research vessels in the world. The £200m investment in an icebreaker is to be announced by Chancellor George Osborne in a speech on Friday. The ship is likely to be 130m long and sport a helipad, cranes, onboa...
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The Battle of Culloden
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The Battle of Culloden (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Chùil Lodair) was the final confrontation of the 1745 Jacobite Rising. Taking place on 16 April 1746, the battle pitted the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart against an army commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, loyal to the Britis...
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Biggar
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Scotland's 'first humans' discovered near Biggar Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe could be the earliest evidence of human settlers in Scotland. More than 5,000 flint objects dated to 14,000 years ago have been recovered near Biggar in South Lanarkshire. Experts say the tools may...
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Aurochs
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Archaeological researchers at the University of Groningen have discovered that the aurochs, the predecessor of our present-day cow, lived in the Netherlands for longer than originally assumed. Remains of bones recently retrieved from a horn core found in Holwerd (Friesland), show that the au...
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Dozens of megafauna (large animals over 100 pounds) – such as giant tortoises, horses, elephants, and cheetah – went extinct in North America13,000 years ago during the end of the Pleistocene. As is the case today in Africa and Asia, these megafauna likely played keystone ecological roles via pred...
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Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955) was a German-born Swiss-American theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einste...
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Caroline Herschel
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Often overshadowed by her famous brother William, Caroline Herschel became a renowned observer in her own right and the world's first female professional astronomer. Read more Caroline Lucretia Hersch...
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Ancient Los Angeles
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History of Ancient Los Angeles Was Driven by Its Wetlands, 8,000-Year Survey Finds It may be hard to visualize if youve been through drought-stricken southern California lately, but much of whats now Los Angeles was once a teeming wetland. And a new landmark survey going back 8,000 years has found t...
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Sierra Negra volcano
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Scientists Launch NSF Study of Sierra Negra An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Miami (UM), University of Rochester, University of Idaho-Moscow and the Instituto Geofísico, Escuela Politécnica Nacional (Quito, Ecuador) have joined forces to study one the world's m...
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