Pointillism — a painting technique in which dots are used to create the illusion of a larger image — was developed in the 1880s by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. However, a team of archaeologists led by New York University Anthropology Professor Randall White has now found evidence of this …
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Dr. Mary Bourke from Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford Professor Heather Viles have discovered a patch of land in an equatorial crater on Mars that appears to have been flooded by large volumes of water in the planet’s past. A large pit valley in Lucaya crater, Mars: (a) …
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A team of archaeologists from the the University of Haifa has discovered a large theater and a public bathhouse at the archaeological site of the ancient city of Hippos-Sussita in Israel. Roman theater at Hippos-Sussita; the results of the trial excavation: semicircular passage between the lower and upper seating arrangements …
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Nan Madol, an ancient administrative and the former capital of the Micronesian island of Pohnpei, was the earliest among the Pacific islands to be ruled by a single chief, according to an international team of archaeologists. Nan Madol ruins on the island of Pohnpei. Image credit: C.T. Snow / CC …
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Fossilized teeth from a newly identified species of extinct shark that lived 20 million years ago (early Miocene) were found in the mid-latitudinal zones along the Pacific (Japan, California, and Peru) and western Atlantic (North Carolina) coasts. Megalolamna paradoxodon lived in the same oceans megatoothed sharks inhabited. Image credit: Kenshu …
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