The Cryptic B Script of the Dead Sea Scrolls partially deciphered using computation
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem applied computational methods to identify the Cryptic B Script of the Qumran manuscripts …
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Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem applied computational methods to identify the Cryptic B Script of the Qumran manuscripts …
Read →Excavations at Bacho Kiro cave (Bulgaria) have revealed Homo sapiens remains dating to 43,000 to 46,000 years ago, or possibly more. This i…
Read →A University of Helsinki team has detected 396 geoglyphs buried beneath the Brazilian forest using lidar. These remains belong to the Aquir…
Read →New cosmogenic nuclide burial dating places thé Yunxian fossil skulls (Hubei, China) at 1.77 million years, some 700,000 years older than p…
Read →Archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin have dated the Amnya site in western Siberia to more than 8,000 years old. These fortification…
Read →Paintings dated to at least 17,100 years ago in Bacon Hole Cave on thé Gower Peninsula, Wales, are confirmed as thé oldest known cave art i…
Read →In the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, renewed excavations at Shanidar Cave by the University of Cambridge have uncovered the remains …
Read →Discovered by chance in the tin mines of the Jos Plateau in Nigeria, Nok sculptures dated between the 9th century BC and the 2nd century AD…
Read →Mesolithic European hunter-gatherers had dark skin despite tens of thousands of years on thé continent. Ancient DNA from spécimens such as …
Read →Discovered in 2012 in the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region, the Burtele fossil foot dates to 3.4 million years ago. With its divergent…
Read →Carbonised wooden beams dating to thé Babylonian conquest of 586 BCE have been discovered in thé City of David. Paradoxically preserved by …
Read →A granite pebble bearing a red ochre stain and a complete fingerprint, attributed to a Neanderthal individual, has been unearthed at thé Sa…
Read →Partially burned phytoliths recovered from thé sédiments of Cloggs Cave (Victoria, Australia) show that thé GunaiKurnai nation has been per…
Read →A CNRS team has succeeded in directly radiocarbon-dating Palaeolithic paintings in Font-de-Gaume cave, Dordogne. A bison has been placed at…
Read →Fired nearly 2,800 years ago, jars stamped by the Kingdom of Judah froze the state of Earth's magnetic field into their clay. They reveal a…
Read →Some sixty footprints fossilised in gypsum push back human arrival in North America by several millennia.
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