In a Danish burial mound in 1891, archaeologists found a 3,400-year-old Bronze Age folding chair, the only completely preserved chair from Bronze Age Europe, and its finder wondered if it was a table
In July 1891, in the rain, archaeologist Vilhelm Boye opened a plow-damaged burial mound near Vamdrup in southern Jutland, and the National Museum of…
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Niam Chiang Meng, then chairman of Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA), described the first…
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In a Danish burial mound in 1891, archaeologists found a 3,400-year-old Bronze Age folding chair, the only completely preserved chair from Bronze Age Europe, and its finder wondered if it was a table
In July 1891, in the rain, archaeologist Vilhelm Boye opened a plow-damaged burial mound near…
UN members voted 164 to 1 to encourage the Equal Earth projection, where Brazil looks nearly four times the size of Greenland, a shift Latin American geographers say gives their region new visibility
Tom Patterson had more or less retired from drawing maps for the U.S. national parks….
Uceda, a small town in central Spain, wants volunteers to excavate its hilltop castle and a buried 30-acre Islamic medina, and the archaeologists running the dig offer six weekly spots with breakfast until October 20
“Open to participation as volunteers,” says the poster the town hall of Uceda put out…
Scientists studying a 2,000-year-old Mithridates warship sunk off Phanagoria in the Black Sea tested 22 nails and a 34-pound bronze ram, and found builders paid for copper over cheaper iron to keep it sailing
The Mithridates warship turned up in 2012 in Taman Bay, under more than 5 feet…
Divers off Turkey’s Kekova Island found a shipwreck that archaeologists date to 4,400 to 4,700 years ago and call the oldest known shipwreck, and some of its jars still hold a glossy residue
Off Kekova Island in southern Turkey, about 100 feet (30 meters) down, divers have been…
The SS Richard Montgomery, a U.S. Liberty ship that sank off Sheerness in 1944, still holds about 1,400 tons of explosives, and salvors have cut away the three masts that marked it for 82 years
On August 20, 1944, the SS Richard Montgomery dragged its anchor in the Thames Estuary…
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Scientists in Nanjing simulated greening in China and India, which together account for nearly one-third of Earth’s added leaf area, and the model shows it cooling western Eurasia while northern North America warms
As a Ph.D. student at Boston University, Chi Chen went through satellite images of the planet pixel…
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