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Deep-Sea Mining May Pose Serious Threat To Fragile Marine Ecosystems, According To Study
May 17, 2007 — A study finds undersea habitats supporting rare and potentially valuable organisms are at risk from seafloor mining scheduled to begin within this decade. Mining of massive sulphide deposits near ... > full story -
Ancient Wooden Anchor Discovered
May 16, 2007 — The world's oldest wooden anchor was discovered during excavations in the Turkish port city of Urla, the ancient site of Liman Tepe, the Greek 1st Millennium BCE colony of Klazomenai. The anchor, ... > full story -
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Walk Like An Egyptian -- Or A Roman: Experience What The Past Really Looked Like
May 15, 2007 — Computer scientists and cultural heritage researchers are assessing whether today's increasingly sophisticated 3-D computer technology can be combined with the most recent historical evidence to ... > full story -
NASA Mission Explores World's Deepest Sinkhole
May 14, 2007 — A NASA-funded expedition, including researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, will begin searching for the submerged bottom of Mexico's El Zacatón sinkhole with a ... > full story -
Egyptians, Not Greeks Were True Fathers Of Medicine
May 9, 2007 — Scientists examining documents dating back 3,500 years say they have found proof that the origins of modern medicine lie in ancient Egypt and not with Hippocrates and the ... > full story -
Tomb Of King Herod Discovered At Herodium
May 8, 2007 — The long search for Herod the Great's tomb has ended with the exposure of the remains of his grave, sarcophagus and mausoleum on Mount Herodium's northeastern slope. Spread among the ruins are pieces ... > full story -
Pig Study Forces Rethink Of Pacific Colonisation
March 12, 2007 — A survey of wild and domestic pigs, published in PNAS, has caused archaeologists to reconsider both the origins of the first Pacific colonists and the migration routes humans travelled to reach the ... > full story -
Prototype Space Probe Prepares To Explore Earth's Deepest Sinkhole
March 8, 2007 — Scientists return this week to the world's deepest known sinkhole for tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth's most extreme regions and ... > full story -
Paleo-Ecologist Challenges Traditional Amazonian Population Theories
March 7, 2007 — There's a scholarly debate brewing about whether pre-Columbian Amazonian populations settled in large numbers across Amazonia and created the modern forest setting that many conservationists take to ... > full story -
Ship Excavation Sheds Light On Napoleon's Attack On The Holy Land
March 5, 2007 — A ship that sunk off the coast of Acre during the battles between Napoleon and the British navy is still shrouded in mystery. Marine archaeologists from the University of Haifa are analyzing the hull ... > full story
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