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Chronological Lists of Oriental Institute Publications

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Chronological Lists of Oriental Institute Publications

Between 1997 and 2011, the Oriental Institute maintained a list, by year, of its publications. This offered a useful chronological overview of the publication activity. I have now compiled lists for 2012-2018 and include links to the 1997-2011 lists below.

2018
2017

2016
  • LAMINE 1. Christians and Others in the Umayyad State. Edited by Antoine Borrut and Fred M. Donner, with contributions by Touraj Daryaee, Muriel  Debié, Sidney H. Griffith, Wadad al-Qadi, Milka Levy-Rubin, Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Donald Whitcomb, and Luke Yarbrough, 2016

  • Nimrud: The Queens' Tombs. By Muzahim Mahmoud Hussein, translation and initial editing by Mark Altaweel, additional editing and notes by McGuire Gibson. 2016
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2014

2013

 2012

For an up to date list of all Oriental Institute publications available online see:

Ancient 'Tomb' Unearthed in Guatemala Turns Out to Be Maya Steam Bath

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Archaeologists have discovered an ancient steam bath that the Maya likely used for religious rituals...

Concordance Liberated: Apuleius

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About a year ago Bret Mulligan and I started on a project to liberate the data contained in concordances of classical authors, by digitizing the concordance, then unscrambling it to produce a fully lemmatized text. This lemmatized text was then to be combined with dictionary head words and definitions to create a full lexicon. The idea is that those who want to read the author could create full, accurate vocabulary lists based on this data, using The Bridge.

In April 2018 we received a Pedagogy Grant from the Society for Classical Studies (see “Flight of the Concordances“) to begin with the Index Apuleianus by William Abbott Oldfather et. al. (published in 1934 by the American Philological Association). Today I am proud to report on the  successful completion of that part of the project.

A websitedescribing the broader Concordance Liberation Project is now live. 
The Gituhub repositorycontainis the plain text of the concordance and the lemmatized text with full dictionary forms and definitions.
The searchable interface at The Bridge makes this data available to teachers and others who want to create vocabulary lists for works of Apuleius.

The digitization was performed by NewGen Knowledge Works. Chris Francese and Bret Mulligan performed the data analysis prefatory to processing and conversion. Michael Skalak wrote the code and transformed the plain text to a spreadsheet. Post-processing involved creating equivalencies between the lemmas used by Oldfather and his team and the lemmas or “titles” used by The Bridge; making sure that dictionary forms or display lemmas matched those; and then equipping the dictionary headwords with appropriate definitions. This difficult and meticulous work was carried out by Eli Goings (Dickinson ’18) and John Burgess (Haverford ’19), with funding from Dickinson and Haverford Colleges. As those who know Apuleius are aware, his vocabulary is immense. This work effectively creates a full lexicon of his works with definitions for even the most obscure words.

“Concordance Liberation” is now an ongoing project, and the SCS grant gave it an important impetus, for which we are very grateful. The next author we are tackling is Eutropius, and we have many others in the queue. Please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.

Homer Book Cover 1

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Tell me, Muse, the story of that resourceful man who was driven to wander far and wide after he had sacked the holy citadel of Troy. He saw the cities of many people and he learnt their ways. He suffered great anguish on the high seas in his struggles to preserve his life and bring his comrades home.

Open Access Journal: DIO: The International Journal of Scientific History

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 [First posted in AWOL 4 December 2013, updated 14 January 2019]

DIO: The International Journal of Scientific History
ISSN 1041-5440
DIO is primarily a journal of scientific history & principle. Most articles are authored by astrononomers, physicists, mathematicians, & classicists — not historians. There are no page charges.
  • Since 1991 inception, has gone without fee to leading scholars & libraries.
  • Publisher & journal cited (1996 May 9) in New York Times frontpage story on his discovery of data blowing open the famous 70-year Richard Byrd North Pole controversy. [Featured in DIO 10 [2000], co-published with the University of Cambridge.]
  • See also New York Times Science 2010/9/8, or fuller version(including link to DIO) on NYT website.
  • Journal is published primarily for universities' and scientific institutions' collections; among subscribers (by written request) are libraries at: Oxford University, Cambridge University, Johns Hopkins, Cal Tech, Cornell University, the universities of Chicago, Toronto, London, Munich, Göttingen, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Tartu, Amsterdam, Liège, Ljubljana, Bologna, Canterbury (NZ); the US Naval Observatory, Royal Astronomical Society (London), Royal Observatory (Scotland), British Museum, Russian State Library, International Center for Theoretical Physics (Trieste).
  • Contributors include world authorities in their respective fields, experts at, e.g., Johns Hopkins University, Cambridge University, University of London.
  • New findings on Mayan eclipse math, Columbus' landfall, and Comet Halley apparitions.
  • Journal first to reveal orbital evidence proving the priority of Paris Observatory's U.Leverrier as Neptune's 1846 discoverer, and overturning history's harsh verdict on J. Challis (Cantab) for missing the planet. On Leverrier's instruction, Neptune was found at Berlin Observatory 1846/9/23 within 1° of his computed spot — still, 1 1/2 centuries later, astronomical history's #1 miracle-event.
  • [DIO 2.3, 4.2, 7.1 & DIO 9.1 [1999], the last cited at Scientific American 2004 Dec p.98 for the key finding that undid England's long-previously-accepted priority claim.]
  • Includes occasional satirical supplement, customarily devoted to an ever-bubbling stream of math-science howlers, published by the most dissent-suppressive History-of-astronomy professorial deities.
  • Entire 1993 volume [DIO vol. 3] devoted to the first (and still the only) critical edition of Tycho's legendary 1004-star catalog.
Scholars familiar with DIOare urged to bring it to the attention of the serials departments of appropriate institutional libraries.
DIO 22 DIO & The Journal for Hysterical Astronomy
1. Ancient Accuracy vs History of science Society— History-of-science's Egglaying Race Continues Apace:Isis-HsS-JHA 2015 Theft of DIO Discovery & Astronomically-Bungled 2016 HsS Attack on DR Greenwich Centenary paper
Resolving Conflict Between Greek Scientists' Ordmag 1' Latitude Accuracy vs Astrologers' Ordmag 1° Crudity
Disgracefully Unquestioned Tradition That Canaries = Blest Isles, Despite 800mi Latitude Nonfit, Ignoring Cape Verde Islands' Neat Fit

2. The Greatest Faker of Antiquity: Still Foolin' 'Em
— AllTime-Spectacular Ineptest Ptolemy Fakes — Some Hitherto Unknown or Insufficiently Appreciated

3. History-of-astronomy's Serial Data-Tamperers: Retards Retarding Potential Advances Via DIO's Cascade of Inductive Successes —
Revealing Brilliance of Kallippos, Timocharis, Aristarchos, Sostratos, Hipparchos, & anonymous Greek astronomers

4. Ptolemists Lay Another Egg: JAHH Suppresses Referee-Urged Contrary Evidence; False, Amateur, & Unbalanced Statistics

DIO 21 DIO & The Journal for Hysterical Astronomy1. “A Hack Job”, by Robert M. Bryce
The Enduring Perils of Copyism.

2. “Ignored” No More, by Robert M. Bryce
The Frederick Cook 1993 Ohio State University Conference.

3. Dr.Frederick Cook as Non-Navigator, Inept Liar, & Thief of Glory, by Dennis Rawlins
Amateurishly Indoor-Cooked&Doctored Double-Limb Solar Double-Altitudes Allegedly Outdoor by Sextant.

4. Finding the Cook Case's Smoking Gun at Last, by Robert M. Bryce
The Lost Original Polar Diary of Frederick Cook

5. Snow Job & the 7 Dwarfs— Incontinental Drift, by Dennis Rawlins
National Geographic's Unimpeachable Longitude Authority Proves Errant Brazil Kissed Africa Under 500 Years Ago;
Plus Further Navigation Founderation HyperDiscoveries: Moon a Planet! Tachyonic Tectonics! Relativity a Hoax!
NGS-NF Discovers Simultaneous Worldwide Lunar Appulse!

6. A Long Persistently Shelved Galileo Episode, by Nicholas Kollerstrom
1618's Great Comet: “Fly Like an Eagle”, Jesuit Grassi's parallax evidence of superlunary comet bests Galileo's conviction that comets were nearby terrestrial apparitions.

7. DIO's Own Bottom-Ten List of Establishment Myths, by Dennis Rawlins
Genesis; Moses' Tablets; Resurrectile Disfunction; Ptolemy's Solar, Mercurial, & Venusian geocentricity; Marlowe→Shakespeare Same Town Same Fortnight; John C.Adams' Post-Discovery Neptune “Priority” vs Leverrier's right-on earlier hit; Papal Infallibility's Circularity & those VatCity Cards; Peary's peerlessly steerless N.Pole navigation; Byrd's long-hidden N.Pole raw data; History-of-science's glorification of indoor astrologer Ptolemy as The Greatest while scoffing at outdoor-scientist observer & inductor-genius Aristarchos as incompetent faker.

8. AIR-ERRing ERatosthenes, by Dennis Rawlins
Airbending of horizontal light (atmospheric refraction) as perfect-fit source of large Earth-circumference measurement-errors of Sostratos-Eratosthenes & of Poseidonios. Theory's triple-fit is final proof that 185 meters = pharaonic stade length.

9. Accurate Ancient Astronomical Achievements, by Dennis Rawlins
all three ancient monthlengths correct to 1 timesec; observatories' geographical latitudes accurate to ordmag 1 arcmin; lunar-eclipse-based geographical longitudes accurate to ordmag 1° and History-of-science's backfironic denial of the achievement; 185-meter stade's implication of Ptolemy I survey's Earth-measure to 1%; Hipparchos' 135 BC obliquity good to ordmag 1 arcmin; Greeks' recognition that solstices were accurate to ordmag 1 hour & superior to equinoxes; eclipse-measured stars, parallax-sign-slips & cannonized saint-editor; solar distance as origin of order-of-magnitude; distances to Sun & to stars gauged by visual limit 1/10000 radians expands helicentrists' universe trillion-fold beyond geocentrists.


DIO 20 DIO1. Archimedes as Astronomer: His 2200-Year Sunsize Disguise Unmasked; Use of Degrees in 3rd Century Hellenistic Science
2. Ancient Solstices: Hipparchos' 158 BC solstice and Solar Year from his Eclipse Invervals & papyrus Fouad 267A
3. Hipparchos' Fake −381/12/12 Eclipse's 179° Elongation; His Math's Mechanical Flawlessness; Greek Solar Theory Invented Ordmag

DIO 19 DIO
Galileo's Jupiter Satellite Observations, transl. Charles J. Donovan

DIO 18 DIO
Marlowe Created Shakespeare --- and the Perfect Non-Murder
 DIO 17
1. Searching for the Ether: Leopold Courvoiser’s Attemtps to Measure the Absolute Velocity of the Solar System, by Roberto De Andrade Martins
2. The Very Early History of Trigonometry, by Dennis Duke
3. An Early Use of the Chain Rule, by Dennis Duke

DIO 16 DIO & The Journal for Hysterical Astronomy1. Hipparchos' Eclipse-Based Spica&Regulus, Solved Via JHA Parallax Sign-Muff
2. Pytheas' Ideal Southern-View Marseilles Observatory Located: Cape Croisette
3. A.Diller's Sph Trig Klimata Theory Perfected, & Gratuitous JHA Attack Upon It Refereed
4. Scrawlins

DIO 151. Charles Kowal's Account of His Discovery of Galileo's 1612-1613 Neptune Observations
2. Statistical Dating of the Phenomena of Eudoxus, by Dennis Duke
3. An Interesting Property of the Equant, by Dennis Duke
4. A Database for British Neptune-discovery Correspondence, by Nick Kollerstrom

DIO 141. Eratosthenes: Pharos Truth Behind Alexandria-Aswan Myth
2. Aristarchos Unbound: Ancient Vision
3. The Ptolemy GEOGRAPHY’s Secrets

DIO 13.2-31. The Babylonian Theory of the Planets, by Hugh Thurston
2. Source of Hebrew Month: Babylonian Science or Ancient Tradition? by Morris Engelson
3. Hebrew Month:  Information from Almagest? by Morris Engelson
4. Ancient Declinations and Precession, by Dennis Duke

DIO 13.11. On the Orientation of Early Egyptian Pyramids
2. Vast Eclipse Cycles: Stabilities & Gaps

DIO 121. The Southern Limit of the Ancient Star Catalog, by Keith A. Pickering
2. On the Clarity of Visibility Tests, by Dennis Duke
3. The Measurement Method of the Almagest Stars, by Dennis Duke
4. The Instuments Used by Hipparchos, by Keith A. Pickering
5. A Re-identification of some entries in the Ancient Star Catalog, by Keith A. Pickering

DIO 11.3  [Three Ways Ptolemy Could've Solved Venus' Orbit Honestly] 5. Ancient Solutions of Venus & Mercury orbits, by Dennis Duke
6. The Crucial-Test V-bomb [Hey-Nobody's-Perfect], by Dennis Rawlins
7. Unveiling Venus, by Hugh Thurston

DIO 11.24. Ancient Planet Tables' Long-Cycle Ancestries

DIO 11.11. Aristarchos & the "Babylonian" System B Month
2. Babylon's System A & the 1274 BC Eclipse
3. Hipparchos' Draconitic Month & the 1245 BC Eclipse

DIO 10 DIO & The Journal for Hysterical AstronomyDIO's Report (co-published with the University of Cambridge) on R.Byrd's 1926 North Pole Hoax
  Amundsen: Cheated & Uncheated … First at EACH Pole
  Byrd 1926 North Pole Claim's Burial Slides from Decent to Indecent
  Bernt Balchen's Air Double Priority & Skepticism Vindicated
  Byrd's Courage & Navigational Pioneering Merit Admiration Nonetheless

DIO 9.2-34. Response to FACS's "Critical Review", by Robert M. Bryce
5. The "Washburn-Rawlins-Bryce Troika", by Robert M. Bryce
 The Journal for Hysterical Astronomy6. High Comedy at Low Altitude, a DIO Commentary

DIO 9.11. British Neptune-Disaster File Recovered
2. Ecliptical Coordinates Beneath Hipparchos' Commentary, by Keith Pickering
3. Continued-Fraction Decipherment: Ancestry of Ancient Yearlengths & [pre-Hipparchan] Precession

DIO 8   A Thurston Collection 1. R.R. Newton versus Ptolemy, by Hugh Thurston
2. Mediaeval Indians and the Planets, by Hugh Thurston
3. WWII Cryptography, by Hugh Thurston
4. Book Reviews of J.Evans 1998 & N.Swerdlow 1998, by Hugh Thurston
5. Scrawlins

DIO 7.2-37. The Fake Peak Revisited, by Robert M. Bryce
8. Cook's Curious Timetable, by Robert M. Bryce
 The Journal for Hysterical Astronomy9. Unfalsifiability-Summit, Flub-Summit, Barometer-Bomb: a DIO commentary

DIO 7.11. Robertson's Data Fabrications, by E. Myles Standish
2. Hipparchus and Spherical Trigonometry, by Curtis Wilson
3. Hipparchos at Lindos, a Modest Confirmation, by Dennis Rawlins
4. Peary's Memorandum on Steering, by Hanne Dalgas Christiansen
5. Unpublished Letters
6. van der Waerden: a Mathematician's Appreciation, by Hugh Thurston

DIO 6 DIO-Journal for Hysterical Astronomy1. Testing Princetitute-Muffia Omertà: Equation 31, by Dennis Rawlins
 DIO2. A Mayan Table of Eclipses, by Hugh Thurston
3. Crawling Towards Integrity
4. OJ Darts & Nordberg Walks
5. Hero & Doppelfanger: A Shaggy Were-Dog Story

DIO 5Aubrey Diller’s edition of Ptolemy’s Geography, Book 8
  Plus 2009's Surprise 13-for-13 Vindication of Diller's 1934 Proof of 2nd Century BC Spherical Trig


DIO 4.311. Concise Chronology of Approaches to the Poles, by R. K. Headland
12. Richard Byrd, Bernt Balchen, & the North Pole, by Dennis Rawlins
13. Scrawlins
14. Recovering Hipparchos' Last Lost Lustrous Star
15. Naked Came the Arrogance

DIO 4.2Competence Held Hostage #2: The Princeton Institute vs. Aubrey Diller
6. Ptolemy's Backwardness, by Hugh Thurston
7. Unpublished Letters
8. The JFK Assassination Conspiracy Conspiracy
9. Scrawlins
10. The "Theft" of the Neptune Papers: Amnesty for the Astronomer Royal?

DIO 4.1Competence Held Hostage #1
1. Pan-Babylonianism Redivivus? Ivy League Fundamentalism, by David Dicks
2. Columbus's Landfall at Plana Keys, by Keith Pickering
3. Hipparchos' Sites, his Spherical Trig, & R. Newton's Star Catalog Test, by Dennis Rawlins
4. Casting Pearls Before Pyglets: a Cautionary Tale of Duffermuffs & Flatterfeet
5. Announcing DIO Edition of Tycho's Star Catalog: Gratis to Subscribing Libraries

DIO 3Tycho's Star Catalog: the First Critical Edition
  A. KiloPerfectionism
  B. Spherical Trig: Precision by Brainpower
  C. The Catalog's Misunderstood Accuracy
  D. Error Medians
  E. Error Standard Deviations
  F. Least-Squares Analysis of Errors
  G. Principal-Star Error Trends
  H. Exceptional-Star Error Trends
  I. Select-Star Error Trends
  J. Discussion of Error Tables
  K. Total Star Count
  L. How Dim Was Tycho's Magnitude Limit?
  M. Discussion of Individual Stars' Errors [& List of Abbreviations]
  N. The Final Fifty Stars: Complete Spherical Trig Reconstructions
  O. Tycho's Rank
  P. Preface to Full Tabulation of Catalog D's 1004 Stars & 100 Select Stars

DIO 2.36. Scrawlins
7. Unpublished Letters
8. Current Developments: Columbus, Amundsen, and Ptolemy's Jekyll&Hide Defenders
9. The Neptune Conspiracy: British Astronomy's Post-Discovery Discovery

DIO 2.25. Amundsen's "Nonexistent" 1911 South Pole Aiming Data
  A. Ted Heckathorn
  B. The You're-Another Defense of Peary's Alleged Course-Setting
  C. Clott of the Antarctic?
  D. Moore Logic
  E. The NavFou Piles On
  F. Heckathorn Finds Amundsen's Transverse Data
  G. Recovering Amundsen's Spherical Trig Calculations
  H. Scott's Navigational Math
  I. Ex-Meridian Overprecision & Fatigue
  J. Amundsen's Path to the Pole
  K. Bunker Buncombe
  L. Appendix: Coverup Cubed

DIO 2.11. Scrawlins
2. Correspondence
3. Referees Refereed
4. Tycho 1004-Star Catalog's Completion Was Faked

DIO 1.2-3 The Journal for Hysterical Astronomy  9. Muffia Orbituary
  A. Let Us Now Braise Famous Men
  B. The Winter of Our Disrefereeing
  C. Somersaults & Winter Equinoxes
  D. Even a Hun Can Have Fun: Blitzkreig in the 'Jest
  E. DeToga Party: Lead Paper, Lead Balloon
  F. R.R.Newton's Ghost Flattens Babylonian Unicycle
  G. TrigOut Orgy
  H. Browning-Squared
  I. It Is Best To Be Clear About One's Conduct
  J. And The Last Shall Be First: Muffia Immolation-Scene
 DIO  K. Old Turkey: The Mystery of Hipparchos' Roots
  L. Hipparchos' Eclipse Trio B Reveals His Early Solar Orbit
  M. Frankensteinorbit Meets Trio A
  N. From Hipparchos' Sham Emerges: Aristarchos' Lunar Apogee
  O. Ancient Heliocentrists' Adoption of the Astronomical Unit
  P. Basking Case
  Q. Improved Estimates of Aristarchos' Distances to Sun & Moon
  R. Haute Cowture & Pseudo-Aristarchos' Fatal Contradiction
  S. Hipparchos in Scientific History
 The Journal for Hysterical Astronomy  10. Black Affidavit

DIO 1.11. Prologue: by Dennis Rawlins
2. Rawlins' Scrawlins
3. Unpublished Letters
4. Peary, Verifiability, and Altered Data
5. The Scholarly Integrity of Book Reviews, by Robert R. Newton
6. Hipparchos' Ultimate Solar Orbit
 The Journal for Hysterical Astronomy7. Figleaf Salad: Ptolemy's Planetary Model as Funny Science
8. Royal Cometians: Reputability, Reform, & Higher Selfpublication

The 12th-century Aegean pottery from the Koukounaries Hill, Paros and Tell Atchana (ancient Alalakh), Turkey: some social and historical implications and unexpected interconnections

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January 15, 2019 19.00 - LECTURE Robert B. Koehl, Hunter College, City University of New York, Professor of Archaeology, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies

Responses of benthic foraminifera to changes of temperature and salinity

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Benthic foraminifera are widely used as paleoenvironmental proxies because of their high sensitivity to environmental changes and excellent preservation potential in sediment. Affected by global changes, environmental factors such as seawater temperature and salinity are changing, which will affect the distribution and species composition of benthic foraminifera. A recent study revealed how the benthic foraminiferal community respond...

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A new mechanism helps explain differences between eukaryotic and bacterial proteomes

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What makes distinct species have different proteins? Is there a key that allows eukaryotic cells to produce proteins involved in multicellularity that are mostly absent in prokaryotes? Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree based on ADAT2 and ADAT3 amino acid sequences [Credit: Molecular Biology and Evolution]These are some of the questions addressed by the scientists headed by ICREA researcher Lluís Ribas, group leader of the Gene...

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Skull scans tell tale of how world's first dogs caught their prey

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Analysis of the skulls of lions, wolves and hyenas has helped scientists uncover how prehistoric dogs hunted 40 million years ago. Computerised scan of skull of first dog species - Hesperocyon gregarius - with inner ear highlighted in red [Credit: Julia Schwab]A study has revealed that the first species of dog -- called Hesperocyon gregarius -- pounced on its prey in the same way that many species, including foxes and coyotes, do...

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Plant phytolith and water content influence rate of tooth enamel abrasion in vertebrates

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Plant phytolith and water content cause differing degrees of tooth enamel abrasion in vertebrates. This is the conclusion reached by an international research team headed by scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). Their study, featured online before print in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has implications for how tooth wear in extinct animals is interpreted and how this information can be employed...

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Conservation work begins on medieval Dutch trade ship

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Conservation work on a 14th century ship found near Kampen on the river IJssel has started this week after a storm early last year demolished the roof of the conservation station. The IJsselkogge was raised from the river bed in 2016 after being discovered in 2011  [Credit: © Freddy Schinkel]The IJsselkogge, one of a fleet of 100 trade ships belonging to the Hanseatic city of Kampen, was raised from the river bed in 2016 after...

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Ancient tomb group unearthed in Shaanxi

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Archaeologists in northwest China's Shaanxi Province said Friday they have discovered an ancient tomb group dating back more than 1,500 years in a village in the province. Archaeologists with the Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology have excavated a cluster of 12 tombs dating back to the Sixteen Kingdoms (304-439 AD) from 2017 to 2018 in Leijia Village of Xixian New Area, along with sacrificial sites and millet [Credit:...

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How the Arabian oryx was brought back from extinction

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More than four decades ago, the Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild. But today, thanks to efforts spearheaded by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, experts are citing the swell in its numbers as one of the world’s biggest conservation success stories. There are now an estimated 1,220 wild oryx across the Arabian Peninsula [Credit: Shutterstock]In the early 1970s, the antelope was considered all but vanished due to hunting and poaching. Now...

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Unique rock-carved steam bath discovered at Mayan city of Nakum in Guatemala

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A unique steam bath carved in rock was discovered by Jagiellonian University researchers conducting excavations in the ancient Mayan city of Nakum in Guatemala. The more than 2,500-year-old structure could have also been the site of religious rituals. Nakum bath during excavations [Credit: Jarosław Źrałka]‘We have initially thought that we have found a tomb. But step-by-step, having revealed different elements of the structure, we...

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Human skull unearthed near north China border confirmed to be 10,000 years old

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A human skull found near the borders of China, Mongolia and Russia is confirmed as dating back more than 10,000 years, researchers announced Saturday. A human skull discovered at Jalainur District at Jalainur Museum in Manzhouli, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region [Credit: Xinhua/Darhan]A carbon-14 dating study on four skull samples discovered at Jalainur District, Manzhouli City in northern China's Inner Mongolia...

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Antarctic ice sheet could suffer a one-two climate punch

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Scientists have long speculated that our planet's climate system is intimately linked to the Earth's celestial motions. Roughly 15 million years ago, when Earth’s atmosphere was supercharged with carbon dioxide, oceans warmed and sea ice around Antarctica disappeared, causing a significant part of the Antarctic ice cap to melt and dramatically elevate global  sea levels (left). New research warns that a warming world caused by...

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Antarctica losing six times more ice mass annually now than 40 years ago

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Antarctica experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017, according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Glaciologists from the University of California, Irvine, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Netherlands' Utrecht University additionally found that the accelerated melting caused global sea levels to rise more than half an inch during that time. Researchers...

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Analyzing genomic data, researchers unlock history of the North African date palm

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Genome analysis reveals that North African date palms are a hybrid between cultivated date palms from the Middle East and a different, wild species of palm that grows on the island of Crete and in small areas of Southern Turkey. These findings, the result of research at NYU Abu Dhabi's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology (NYUAD CGSB), shed new light on the evolutionary history of one of the earliest domesticated tree crops in the...

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Netherlands fossil deposit much richer than expected

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It has long been known that a quarry near the Dutch town of Winterswijk is an Eldorado for fossil lovers. But even connoisseurs will be surprised just how outstanding the site actually is. A student at the University of Bonn, himself a Dutchman and passionate fossil collector, has now analyzed pieces from museums and private collections for his master's thesis. He found an amazing amount of almost completely preserved skeletons, all...

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Differences in genes' geographic origin influence mitochondrial function

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Differences in the geographic origin of genes may affect the function of human mitochondria--energy-generating organelles inside of cells--according to a new study. Mitochondria have their own genome, separate from the nuclear genome contained in the nucleus of the cell, and both genomes harbor genes integral to energy production by mitochondria. The study explores whether these "mito-nuclear" interactions, which are fine-tuned by...

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