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Galactic Archaeology reveals surprising fact about stars in our galaxy

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Galactic Archaeology reveals surprising fact about stars in our galaxy

A single frame from an animation shows how stellar orbits in the Milky Way can change. It shows two pairs of stars (marked as red and blue) in which each pair started in the same orbit...

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THE MYSTERIOUS BIG CIRCLES OF JORDAN AND SYRIA

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THE MYSTERIOUS BIG CIRCLES OF JORDAN AND SYRIA

In the 1920s, a mustachioed British commander named Lionel Rees set out across the deserts of what would become Jordan. Snapping some of the earliest archaeological aerial photographs...

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2,000 year old Roman Aqueduct discovered

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2,000 year old Roman Aqueduct discovered

A pair of British amateur archaeologists believe they have found the hidden source of a Roman aqueduct 1,900 years after it was inaugurated by the Emperor Trajan...

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What lies beneath?

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What lies beneath?

A tantalising clue to the location of a long-sought pharaonic tomb NOTHING has inspired generations of archaeologists like the discovery in 1922 of the treasure-packed tomb of Tutankhamun...

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Tut’s gem hints at space impact?

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Tut’s gem hints at space impact?

In 1996 in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Italian mineralogist Vincenzo de Michele spotted an unusual yellow-green gem in the middle of one of Tutankhamun’s necklaces...

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