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Earth’s First Continents Emerged in an Inferno of Fire and Water, Making the Planet Habitable Hundreds of Millions of Years Earlier Than the Fossil Record Indicates
11+ hour, 47+ min ago (257+ words) Analyses of 4-billion-year-old minerals reveal active tectonics and crustal recycling in the Hadean, rewriting the planet's infancy. A comprehensive examination of the oldest minerals on the planet, microscopic grains of zircon more resistant than diamond, has provided the strongest chemical…...
Geologists solve the mystery of the Green River, which appears to flow uphill to cut through a mountain range
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (677+ words) The answer, as detailed in a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, does not lie at the surface, but in deep, dynamic processes within the Earth's lithosphere, specifically in a phenomenon known as lithospheric dripping....
An Unexpected Discovery beneath the Ishtar Temple in Assur Reveals the City’s Founding Date and Its Relationship with a Hurrian Goddess
1+ week, 2+ day ago (688+ words) Investigations with coring samples reveal a layer of sand brought from the Zagros Mountains, dated around 28962702 BCE, which evidences foundation rites and connects traditions from southern and northern Mesopotamia. Now, thanks to a permit from the Iraqi State Board of…...
A Complete Byzantine Monastery Discovered Beneath the Desert Sands of Southern Egypt
4+ week, 2+ day ago (550+ words) For his part, the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr. Mohamed Ismail Khaled, has stressed the scientific relevance of the site, noting that the information recovered contributes substantially to understanding the true nature of monastic life in…...
Two Mysterious Giant Anomalies at the Boundary Between Earth’s Core and Mantle Explain Why Our Planet Is Different from Venus and Mars
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (625+ words) A study published in Nature Geoscience proposes that gigantic anomalies at the core boundary are the result of material leaking from the planet's metallic heart during its earliest eras, a process that may have determined the geological and atmospheric evolution…...
A 3,600-Year-Old City Found in Kazakhstan Changes the Narrative of a Eurasian Steppe Once Thought to Be Inhabited Only by Nomads in the Bronze Age
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (520+ words) A 140-hectare settlement dedicated to large-scale tin-bronze production challenges the idea that steppe communities were exclusively nomadic and reveals sophisticated urban and industrial planning 3,500 years ago. The remains of an extensive Bronze Age settlement, which likely functioned as a regional…...
Salting the Earth: The Ancient Curse of Doomed Cities That Might Be a Myth
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (116+ words) In sum, perhaps salting a devastated site did not so much mean eradicating all possibility of life there as, on the contrary, regenerating it once duly purified. Another mystery of history that will probably remain up in the air'or in…...
The Discovery That Solves a 600-Million-Year-Old Enigma: When Earth's Magnetic Field Wobbled Out of Control
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (418+ words) During the Ediacaran period, approximately between 630 and 540 million years ago, Earth has remained a persistent and puzzling anomaly in the geological record'a magnetic riddle that for decades has resisted scientists" efforts to find a coherent explanation. While in earlier and…...
Geologists discover the first direct evidence proving the existence of a Proto-Earth 4.5 billion years ago
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (920+ words) In the depths of the Earth, hidden within some of the planet's oldest and deepest rocks, lay a secret 4.5 billion years old. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with institutions from the United States, China, and…...
The eruption that shaped the Aegean world occurred before Pharaoh Ahmose unified Egypt and ushered in its age of splendor
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (506+ words) A pioneering radiocarbon study dates key Egyptian objects and reveals that the catastrophic Minoan eruption of Thera occurred before the reign of the pharaoh who unified Egypt, disproving a famous theory that linked it to the "Tempest Stela." This research,…...