Oct 16th, 2024 - Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old tomb containing 12 skeletons beneath the "Treasury" in the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. In Arabic, the Treasury is known as "Al-Khazneh," which translates to "the treasury of the pharaoh." The exact purpose of the Treasury is unclear, but it may have been a mausoleum for the Nabataean king Aretas IV Philopatris. Film buffs may remember it as the site where the "Holy Grail" — the cup that Jesus is said to have used during the Last Supper — was found in the 1989 movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." While excavating the ... [Read More]

Oct 16th, 2024 - Last October, Axiom Space and Prada partnered to create a new spacesuit for NASA's Artemis III mission — it's first crewed venture to the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. One year later, the pair has revealed a first look at the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit during Milan's International Astronautical Congress. The suit is white with red and gray accents that admittedly does look chicer than a typical spacesuit. The pair claims the new spacesuit's design improves on flexibility, can manage an eight hour spacewalk and will sustain two hours of the lunar south pole's ... [Read More]

Oct 16th, 2024 - China's plans include exploring extraterrestrial lives, exoplanets, and origin and expansion of the universe on Tuesday announced its plans for a manned lunar mission that includes building an international space station and exploring habitable planets and extraterrestrial life . China also aims to put a person on the moon before 2030 , which would make it the second nation after the US to do so. The mid- to long-term development strategy will guide its missions and research initiatives from 2024 to 2050. These initiatives also represent a significant expansion of the country's space program ... [Read More]

Oct 15th, 2024 - Another five suspected cases of bird flu were reported today in California , where six cases have already been confirmed, according to the California Department of Public Health . The state, which is the country's largest dairy supplier, has become the epicenter of bird flu in cows and has concerned public health experts since the beginning of the outbreak for this reason. The people with confirmed infections worked with dairy cattle infected with the H5N1 virus, also known as bird flu, which suggests that the virus has not yet developed the ability to effectively transfer between humans. ... [Read More]

Oct 15th, 2024 - CAIRO (AP) — The Grand Egyptian Museum will open 12 halls with exhibits about ancient Egypt in its main galleries starting this week in a trial run ahead of the still-unannounced official opening, officials said Tuesday The museum, a mega-project near the famed Giza Pyramids which has cost well over $1 billion so far, will open the halls for 4,000 visitors per day starting Wednesday, said Al-Tayeb Abbas, assistant to the minister of antiquities. The museum has been under construction for more than a decade, and an overall opening date has not yet been set, having been repeatedly ... [Read More]

Oct 15th, 2024 - You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! AASUM, Denmark — In a village in central Denmark, archeologists made a landmark discovery that could hold important clues to the Viking era: a burial ground, containing some 50 "exceptionally well-preserved" skeletons. "This is such an exciting find because we found these skeletons that are so very, very well preserved," said archeologist Michael ... [Read More]

Oct 15th, 2024 - An archaeology project that involved regular people doubled the number of known prehistoric barrows in the region in just four months. Over 6,500 volunteers have analyzed data acquired by the experts, supporting the accurate identification of approximately 1000 prehistoric burial mounds in the Netherlands. Volunteers in archaeology Archaeology has long been associated with the image of experts painstakingly digging at remote sites, meticulously uncovering fragments of human history. However, in recent years, the landscape of archaeology has been transformed by the inclusion of ... [Read More]

Oct 15th, 2024 - About 2,000 years ago, the powerful ancient kingdom of the Nabataeans hand-carved a city into the sandstone cliffs of Petra, Jordan. At its center: an imposing, 12-column structure that has since become known as the Treasury. Since then, archaeologists have attempted to understand what the structure was used for, with some speculating that it was a mausoleum built as the final resting place of an important ruler of this era. Now, a team of researchers has made what they called a "stunning" discovery: a chamber buried underneath the Treasury, also known as al-Khazneh, that contains the ... [Read More]