A team of scientists from Japan, Russia and the United States hopes to clone a mammoth, a symbol of Earth’s ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, according to a report in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun. The researchers say they hope to produce a baby mammoth within six years — via woofwoof79.newsvine.com
A German vintner acting on a hunch uncovered a hidden trove of wine untouched since 1945 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A copper-alloy sword guard was recently found in a shipwreck thought to be Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge, archaeologists said in March 2009 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sophisticated farming methods traveled quickly from the Middle East into Europe around 8,000 years ago — via vanessa-wilson73.newsvine.com
The first recognisably modern computer is to be rebuilt at the UK’s former code-cracking centre Bletchley Park — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest wine-making facility ever found, using biochemical techniques to identify a dry red vintage made about 6,000 years ago in what is now southern Armenia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 1998 study that unleashed a major health scare by linking childhood autism to a triple vaccine was an elaborate fraud
, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A major symbol of Cambodia itself, Angkor Wat is one of the oldest temples in the world that still functions as the significant religious center it was built to be. Constructed in the early 12th century for King Suryavarman II (ruled 1113-1150), Angkor Wat was a state temple and capital city for the community, first as a Hindu establishment and eventually becoming a Buddhist temple.
The style of Angkor Wat is the epitome of classical Khmer architecture. The two primary ties between this temple and architecture of the Khmer style is the temple mountain and gallery temples. It was inspired by the home of the gods in Hindu mythology, called Mount Meru. It is surrounded by a moat and a wall 3.6km long, and the three rectangular galleries are distinguished by level changes of the ground — via ArchDaily
The 35 acre, 1950s nuclear bunker which the Ministry of Defence has put up for sale. The Burlington bunker in Corsham would have held 4,000 civil servants in a network of 10 miles of tunnels
Check out this video of a tour through Taliesin West, FLW’s desert masterpiece and architectural campus for apprentices. Located in the Sonoran desert of Scottsdale, Arizona, the project sits in perfect harmony with its surroundings with regards to scale, materiality, and aesthetics. Dating back to the 1930s, Taliesin has been a place of learning, and currently, the building serves as the main campus of the FLW School of Architecture and is home to the FLW Foundation — via ArchDaily
Her face became the symbol of women’s empowerment, and her death is the end of an era.
Geraldine Hoff Doyle of Lansing, the woman behind an iconic image of a bandana-clad, muscle-flexing Rosie the Riveter during WWII, has died, according to her family — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a letter sent nine days after the battle George Neville, the then chancellor of England, wrote that 28,000 men died that day, a figure in accord with a letter sent by Edward to his mother. England’s total population at the time is thought not to have exceeded 3m people. George Goodwin, who has written a book on Towton to coincide with the battle’s 550th anniversary in 2011, reckons as many as 75,000 men, perhaps 10% of the country’s fighting-age population, took the field that day — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Some examples of ancient rock art in Western Australia maintain their vivid colors because they are alive, researchers have found.
Scientists at the University of Queensland have discovered that colorful bacteria and fungi have colonized the rock paintings, the BBC reported Monday.
Researcher Jack Pettigrew and his colleagues studied 80 rock artworks in 16 locations in Western Australia’s Kimberley region.
They found some of the oldest examples showed signs of life, but no paint.
The team dubbed the phenomenon living pigments
— via vanessa-wilson73.newsvine.com
Girl gangs might sound like a modern British problem, but new research has revealed an all-female crime syndicate had a firm and pitiless grip on London as far back as the 18th century.
Forgotten stashes of photographs, records and letters have revealed that although the capital was carved into different fiefdoms by various male villains, one all-female gang ruled part of the gangland underworld for almost two centuries — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A blue-and-white Chinese porcelain dragon jar has sold for $7.7 million, more than 600 times its mid-range pre-sale estimate of $10-15,000, Bonhams auctioneer said on Wednesday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you were going to compose a list of the ten greatest technology products ever, it would be a plausible contender. If you were compiling a list of the ten greatest Web services and didn’t include it, I’d tell you your list was wrong.
It’s AltaVista-the first great search engine. Probably still the second greatest one ever, after you know who. And as Liz Gannes of All Things Digital is reporting, it’s apparently going away due to downsizing at its current owner, Yahoo. (Other victims of Yahoo’s death panel include the once-great Delicious and AllTheWeb, the bland Digg clone Yahoo Buzz, the could-have-been-neat MyBlogLog, and stuff I can’t identify, such as Yahoo Picks) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Historic Scotland has issued a list of the most important battle sites located around the country.
The first phase of the Inventory of Historic Battlefields contains a total of 17 different ocations.
It includes sites in the Borders, Aberdeenshire, the Highlands, North Lanarkshire, Stirling and East Lothian — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s one of Stonehenge’s greatest mysteries: How did Stone Age Britons move 45-ton slabs across dozens of miles to create the 4,500-year-old stone circle?
Now a new theory says that, while the ancient builders didn’t have wheels, they may well have had balls — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A coded manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered in a public library in the French city of Nantes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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