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© 2023 All Rights Reserved. Do not distribute or repurpose this work without written permission from the copyright holder(s). Printed from https://www.damninteresting.com/the-ancient-order-of-bali/ Listen to Podcast In the 1970s, the Indonesian island of Bali went through a period of rapid change. … Read more

More than 1,200 years ago, flightless elephant birds roamed the island of Madagascar and laid eggs bigger than footballs. While these ostrich-like giants are now extinct, new research from CU Boulder and Curtin University in Australia reveals that their eggshell … Read more

A page from an 18th-century copy of the Dhātupāṭha of Pāṇini (MS Add.2351) held by Cambridge University Library. Credit: Cambridge University Library A grammatical problem that has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC has finally been solved by … Read more

Daisugi is an ancient Japanese forestry technique in which planted cedars are pruned in a special way to produce “shoots” that eventually become perfect, straight, knot-free lumber. This is an ancient method, developed in the 14th century, which was originally … Read more

Image Credit : Archaeological Park of Pompeii Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman water system during excavations in Stabiae, located near Pompeii in the Province of Naples, Italy. Stabiae was largely buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, … Read more

Following years of research, Dr. Kathryn Reese-Taylor, PhD, professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at UCalgary, as well as her team of international colleagues, has used lidar (light detection and ranging) to help uncover more secrets of the … Read more

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Guy and his colleagues sequenced the genes of members of Legionellales ranging from the Legionnaires’ disease pathogen to bacteria discovered by expeditions trawling the ocean for exotic microbes. Unsurprisingly, the proteins that the parasites used to shroud their presence and … Read more

An archaeological dig under Notre Dame Cathedral has uncovered an extraordinary treasure of statues, sculptures, tombs and pieces of an original rood screen dating back to the 13th century. The find included several ancient tombs from the middle ages and … Read more