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Newswise — In the corner of a lab room in Candelaria Hall is a handheld tool that looks similar to a barcode scanner grocery store clerks use at the checkout line. However, this tool is called an X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer, and instead of deciphering the price of a cereal box, the XRF determines what…
Newswise — Los conservadores y técnicos de museos protegen los valiosos objetos metálicos arqueológicos, como herramientas y armas, con recubrimientos transparentes, a fin de preservar estos tesoros detallados y permitir su visualización clara. Sin embargo, los investigadores han informado en ACS Central Science que algunas de las resinas utilizadas para estos recubrimientos reaccionan con metales…
I was drawn to the outskirts of Cairo by the colossal complex in the desert — a towering site that arose over decades, built at unimaginable expense, with precisely cut stones sourced from local quarries; a set of buildings whose construction, plagued by extraordinary challenges, spanned the reigns of several rulers; a collective cultural testament,…
A 3½-year-old in Israel recently made an important archaeological discovery. The child, Ziv Nitzan, was hiking with her family last month on a dirt trail about 25 miles outside Jerusalem when a small rock caught her attention. She was drawn to it, she said in an interview translated from Hebrew by her mother, because “it…
Avocados are true superfoods: dense, buttery scoops of vitamins, fat and fiber, all in a hand-size package. We worked for a long time to make them this way. According to a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, people in what we today call Honduras made avocados a part of…
Five years ago Italian researchers published a study on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. that detailed how one victim of the blast, a male presumed to be in his mid 20s, had been found nearby in the seaside settlement of Herculaneum. He was lying facedown and buried by ash on a wooden…
Newswise — A new archaeological study, conducted along the Jordan River banks south of northern Israel’s Hula Valley, offers a fresh perspective on the dietary habits of early humans, challenging conventional wisdom about prehistoric diets. The research reveals that ancient hunter-gatherers relied heavily on plant foods, particularly starchy plants, as a major energy source. The…
On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a plastic bag among trash bins near the northern city of Thessaloniki. It was a headless, armless statue depicting a female form in a flowing, draped garment. The police announced…
Newswise — Lemurs – those small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa – are a mystery of evolution. When the first ones arrived there tens of millions of years ago, they found an island with wildly diverse ecosystems, from wet tropical forests in the east to…
Newswise — CLEVELAND (Dec. 9)—A cave in Galilee, Israel, has yielded evidence for ritualistic gathering 35,000 years ago, the earliest on the Asian continent. Three Israeli researchers led the team that published its findings today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. And researchers from the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School…
