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The Extraordinary Life of Grace O’Malley, the Indomitable Pirate Chief of Her Clan Who Ruled the Ports of Western Ireland

She lived in the 16th century, was the head of the O’Malley Irish clan, was labeled as a pirate for seizing any ship that ...
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The Earth’s crust has broken and mantle fluids are reaching the surface: a new tectonic plate is forming beneath southern Africa

Helium isotope measurements in hot springs of the Kafue Rift reveal a direct connection with the Earth's mantle, suggesting that the crust has broken and a new plate boundary is forming. The team, led ...
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The Oldest Marine Fossils in Madrid Found in the Sierra Norte: The Area Was Under the Sea Before the Supercontinent Pangaea

A team of researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has ...
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Residues of a Lethal Toxin Found in Medieval Medical Instruments Reveal That Anesthesia Was Already Used in 14th-Century Surgeries in China

A team of Chinese archaeologists has identified residues of aconitine on a pair of iron scissors and surgical forceps ...
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Stone Age Archaeology

An international research team, which includes Ferhat Kaya, a researcher at the Academy of Finland at the University of Oulu, has discovered what could be the earliest evidence of human cremation. The ...
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The Earth’s Outer Core Changed Direction Beneath the Pacific Ocean Without Scientists Yet Being Able to Explain the Causes

The research, published in the Journal of Studies of Earth’s Deep Interior, analyzed the behavior of the planet’s liquid ...
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Analysis of Thousands of Ceramic Fragments Confirms that the Ancient Roman Mellaria Was a Major Mining Center Connected to the Trade Networks of Southern …

A study from the Ager Mellariensis project at the University of Córdoba, published in the journal Monografías de Prehistoria ...
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A Large Hidden Hydraulic System Discovered Around the Urartian Fortress of Argishtikhinili in the Ararat Plain in Armenia

The aerial image shows it all. Where the human eye, at ground level, only sees modern farmland and roads, Cold War spy ...
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How the Romans Transformed Europe Without Imposing Their Culture: A Study Shows That Romanization Was a Process of Negotiation

Two archaeological sites in the region of Carinthia (Austria) tell a little-known story about how the Romans built their ...
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Did Alexander the Great Descend into the Depths of the Ocean? The Incredible Myth of the Conquering King and His Diving Bell

Imagine for a moment the following scene: beneath the surface of an ocean teeming with fish of every size and color, a man with the appearance of a king, seated inside a glass barrel, gazes at the ...
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Fossils of the Oldest Giant Crane in Europe and the Oldest Raven in the Iberian Peninsula Found in Granada

The current image of the Granada high plateau, dominated by arid and semi-desert landscapes, is misleading if one goes back in time to approximately a million and a half years ago. At that time, the ...
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More than Twenty Bases of Votive Statues Found Still in Their Original Position at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Frangissa, Cyprus

The Department of Antiquities of the Deputy Ministry of Culture has announced the conclusion of the fifth campaign of modern archaeological excavation at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Frangissa, located ...