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Origins of world’s earliest writing point to symbols on ‘seals’ used in Mesopotamian trade
The world’s oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used…
Read More »Half-a-billion-year-old ‘marine Roomba’ is earliest known asymmetrical animal
The earliest known animal to show evidence of an asymmetrical body lived over half a billion years ago in what…
Read More »The Earliest Known Animal Sex Chromosome is 480 Million Years Old
Sex is determined in a variety of different ways throughout the animal kingdom. In mammals, it is determined genetically, not…
Read More »The earliest pictures capturing the art and beauty of Indian monuments
DAG William Henry Pigou, a surgeon turned photographer, took this picture of an idol cart at a Mysore temple in…
Read More »James Webb telescope confirms the earliest galaxy in the universe is bursting with way more stars than we thought possible
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted the earliest galaxy ever seen, and its unusually bright light is coming…
Read More »6,000-year-old burial mound in Czech Republic may be one of earliest funeral monuments ever found in Europe
Archaeologists have unearthed what may be Europe’s largest prehistoric burial mound ahead of excavations beside a highway in the Czech…
Read More »Beryl, earliest Category 4 hurricane on record, brings life-threatening winds to Caribbean By Reuters
(Reuters) -Hurricane Beryl has become an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm in the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to bring…
Read More »The 2024 summer solstice will be the earliest for 228 years. Here’s why.
Today (June 20) the summer solstice — the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere — will begin,…
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