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Herod the Great’s Alabaster Bathtubs
... of the Scientific Reports article explain in detail. Chemistry Provides the Answers That exciting proof was ... from Egypt.” Amir’s father, Dr. Amnon Albeck, is a chemistry professor at Bar-Ilan University, and she knew he ...
Nathan Falde - 23/05/2022 - 22:58
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Sunken Treasure: Scientists Taste 170-Year-Old Champagne Found in Shipwreck
What does champagne left on the bottom of the ocean for 170 years taste like? Leather and wet dog, apparently.
Those were the initial findings by a team of scientists and lucky tasters after analyzing a sample from one of the 168 bottles of champagne recovered from a shipwrecked vessel on the Baltic seafloor. Divers had found the sunken trade ship off the Aland Islands of Finland in 2010, and the treasure trove has chemists and connoisseurs curious.
lizleafloor - 21/04/2015 - 22:07
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Rivodutri’s Alchemical Door To Enlightenment In 17th Century Italy
Add magic to natural philosophy and early chemistry knowledge and you have the ancient art of alchemy. ... immortality. Add magic to natural philosophy and early chemistry knowledge and you have the ancient art of alchemy . ...
dhwty - 12/10/2020 - 17:59
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Shattered Bog Body Dated To 2,500 Years Old Unearthed
... of men, women, and children, naturally preserved by the chemistry of Northern Europe’s bogs. When bog bodies are ... investigators, applying the disciplines of geology, chemistry, and human behavior to reveal the circumstances ...
ashley cowie - 25/01/2024 - 16:56
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Patrick E. McGovern
... the physical sciences, archaeology, and history-an A.B. in Chemistry from Cornell University, graduate work in ...
ancient-origins - 05/02/2013 - 01:13
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Medicinal Mint Decoded: Scientists Learn Ancient Secrets of Chinese Skullcap Mint
The precious chemistry of a plant used for 2000 years in traditional ... access to a wide array of therapeutic drugs. The precious chemistry of a plant used for 2000 years in traditional ...
ancient-origins - 29/04/2019 - 14:01
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The Curious Case Of Frederick Soddy And The Forgotten Race Of Men
In 1921, Frederick Soddy won the Noble Prize in chemistry for his research into radioactive substances and ... men”. In 1921, Frederick Soddy won the Noble Prize in chemistry for his research into radioactive substances and ...
Dr. Benjamin B. Olshin - 04/06/2021 - 19:47
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Prehistoric UV Cream Discovered on Mummy Makes Him the Oldest Embalmed Egyptian By Far
... in Egypt, but they also bear a striking similarity to the chemistry of the salve researchers had identified in the ... years earlier than previously thought, almost a decade of chemistry oriented projects was undertaken. According to an ... they had a preservative benefit.” The archaeological and chemistry teams are now studying “sites of early ...
ashley cowie - 16/08/2018 - 18:56
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Why Was Roman Concrete So Durable? Scientists Say It Could Heal Itself
... made the decisive difference. How the Romans Manipulated Chemistry to Produce History’s Most Durable Concrete For a ...
Nathan Falde - 06/01/2023 - 21:55
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Ingredients Used to Embalm Egyptian Senetnay Prove Her Elite Status
A team of scientists led by archaeologists from the Max Planck Institute in Germany have just completed a comprehensive analysis of the balm or embalming fluid used in mummification procedures performed on an ancient Egyptian woman who lived in the middle of the second millennium BC.
Nathan Falde - 31/08/2023 - 17:00
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Are we sharing our planet with unusual and invisible lifeforms?
In the Atacama desert in Chile, the Mojave desert in California and many other arid locations, a strange ‘sheen’ made up of manganese, arsenic and silica can be found on rock surfaces. Despite intensive research, it is not yet known how this desert varnish forms but one researcher has presented a particularly interesting theory.
aprilholloway - 16/04/2013 - 11:37
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Ancient Egyptian Makeup: Beauty and Protection with Poison
... were considered so advanced that we got our word for chemistry from them. Says a story on the American Chemical ... Greeks and then the Arabs to eventually coin our present chemistry .” A modern representation of ancient Egyptian ...
Mark Miller - 24/12/2019 - 12:23
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Russian scientists use a mass spectrometer to look inside an ancient Greek amphora
... is an immensely powerful technique in analytical chemistry. Applied to petrochemistry, archaeology, and ...
ancient-origins - 09/07/2016 - 03:46
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Most Convincing Evidence Yet that Mars Supported Life
... is water that was probably much more favorable in its chemistry, in its pH, in its levels of acidity ... for the kind of chemistry that could lead to the origin of life.” It is ...
Nathan Falde - 06/07/2019 - 10:50
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Despite Intensive Scientific Analyses, Parthenon Marble Stain Remains a Mystery
... and archaeological artifacts, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark. Along ...
ancient origins - 22/01/2024 - 16:54
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Ancient Egyptian pigment provides modern forensics with new coat of paint
... showcased the ancient Egyptians' highly advanced grasp on chemistry. The colour is a synthetic product, prepared with ...
ancient-origins - 31/05/2016 - 00:38
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Beekeeping may go back to the early years of agriculture, up to 9,000 years ago
... Roffet-Salque of the University of Bristol’s School of Chemistry, analyzed residues on 6,400 pottery pieces across a ...
Mark Miller - 15/11/2015 - 00:46
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Palms Over Baghdad: Riches and Fear during the Mongol Invasion – Part I
... making, music and poetry. Jabir ibn Hayyan, "the father of Chemistry". ( Public Domain ) This level of sophistication ...
Cam Rea - 08/07/2016 - 23:25
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Did Egyptian Mummification Descend from a More Ancient and, Perhaps, Reversible Preservation Technique?
... forever’? From Chrome Plating to Nanotubes: The Modern Chemistry First Used in Ancient Times Modern version of ... version of a prehistoric technique that used more complex chemistry? Did they practice a pale remembrance of a ...
Stewart Ferris - 10/07/2021 - 01:45
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Hallucinogenic Trip Of The 1000-Year-Old Shamanic Pouch Into Another Galaxy
... substances, which according to an article in ‘ Chemistry World ’ represent “ the largest number of ...
ashley cowie - 09/09/2022 - 20:16