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To read 2,000-year-old burned scrolls, scientists burn their own

Douglas Seiler painstakingly sourced papyrus and reed pens from Egypt and traditional lampblack ink from Japan, then paid some high school students t…

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Medieval Chinese skeleton may reveal first evidence of a brutal punishment

Ancient Chinese authorities used many creative ways to punish people, often with methods designed to mark them for life. One brutal example mentioned…

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Nullarbor mapping reveals surface signs of deep, hidden cave systems

Mysterious trenches stretching for kilometers across southern Australia's Nullarbor Plain have been revealed as the surface footprints of deep, hidde…

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Greenland's Qaanaaq Ice Cap has lost enough ice to produce a layer of water about 8 meters deep

Each summer, researchers from Hokkaido University returned to the Qaanaaq Ice Cap in northwestern Greenland to measure changes in the ice surface usi…

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