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Edinburgh researchers confirmed the impact origin of the Silverpit crater in 2026
An Asteroid Fell into the North Sea, 130 km off the Yorkshire Coast. The dispute over the origin of the Silverpit crater went on for more than twenty years after its discovery. Scholars split into several camps: the first saw the trace of an asteroid, the second the shifting of
Architecture · Geography · Heritage
The Acropolis restoration service completes the west pediment of the Parthenon
The Acropolis Restoration Service has announced that it has completed the western pediment of the Parthenon. The external scaffolding has been removed from the western façade for good, for the first time in several decades. The Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, says that the façade now stands in its full
Archaeology · Geography · Ethnography
Early medieval grave of a woman with a newborn and a horse, discovered in 2014
This is a gilded bronze earring from a tenth-century burial investigated by an expedition of the Academy of Sciences in the Sayan Mountains of southern Siberia. The grave, discovered as long ago as 2014 during preparations for the building of a railway, contained the remains of a woman, a
Archaeology · Geography · Heritage · Science
Chinese porcelain raised by robot from a sunken northern ship of the late Baroque era
In the Skagerrak off the coast of Norway, at a depth of some 600 metres, an eighteenth-century merchant ship has been found almost intact. Usually a shipwreck leaves behind little but potsherds, yet here whole stacks of well-preserved tableware lie on the seabed, and alongside the plates and
Archaeology · Geography · Palaeontology
In two elite burials on the Pacific coast of Panama, El Caño and Sitio Conte, dating to around AD 800–1000, five emeralds mined in Colombia more than 1,000 years ago were found alongside gold, pyrite mirrors and fossilised megalodon teeth
In two elite burials on the Pacific coast of Panama, El Caño and Sitio Conte, dating to around AD 800–1000, five emeralds mined in Colombia more than 1,000 years ago were found alongside gold, pyrite mirrors and fossilised megalodon teeth. It turned out that the stones had travelled
Geography · Nature
Tiger on a sea shore among ice in a 1980s photograph by Viktor Voronin
Amur Tiger in the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve, on the Coast of the Sea of Japan. Photo by Viktor Voronin, 1980s
Archaeology · Geography · Science
At Nauwalabila I, in Kakadu National Park in the north of Australia, what may be the world's oldest evidence of the heat treatment of flint has been found
Patrick Schmidt and Peter Hiscock have re-examined flakes from the deep layers of this rock shelter and found on them traces of deliberate heating dating from 45 to 60 thousand years ago. The technique is as follows: a piece of flint is buried in hot sand beneath a fire,
Archaeology · Geography · Science
Warsaw archaeologists find ten amber workshops from the 3rd and 4th centuries in Mazovia
Around AD 98, Tacitus writes in the «Germania» that the Baltic Aestii gather amber in the shallows, make no use of it themselves, sell it raw to Roman merchants, and are amazed at the price. The typical Roman view of neighbours as barbarians, mere suppliers of raw material, is being
Archaeology · Geography · Science · Nature
An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena has set side by side three sets of data: models of the distribution of the largest complexes of vector mosquitoes, palaeoclimatic models and the settlement sites
An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena has set side by side three sets of data: models of the distribution of the largest complexes of vector mosquitoes, palaeoclimatic models and the settlement sites of early humans in sub-Saharan Africa in the period
The East · Geography · Society
Forever in Iran's Hands
A Persian inscription on a propaganda billboard depicting the Strait of Hormuz in Tehran. Photo: Abedin Taherkenareh, EPA agency
Archaeology · Geography · Heritage · Ethnography
The Mexico City to Querétaro rail route was moved after 16 rock drawings were found
In Mexico, during construction of the $8 billion Mexico City–Querétaro high-speed railway, 16 rock paintings and petroglyphs were discovered along its route. It was then decided to move the route, so as to save the site of the rock images from destruction. The finds belong to two eras.