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Shine With No Stars at All — The Milky Way Began as a Swarm of Thousands of Tiny Galaxies

Long ago, the patch of sky that would become our galactic neighbourhood looked nothing like a galaxy. It was a collection of thousands of smaller galaxies. Some were turning out stars at a frantic pace, others held nothing but gas, and others were littered with dead stars and black holes. That is the picture drawn […]

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Los primeros humanos entraron en América en lo más crudo de la última Edad de Hielo

Las fechas que se han propuesto para la llegada de los primeros humanos a América se reparten en una horquilla de más de 100.000 años. En un extremo está Cerutti, un yacimiento de California que Holen y sus colegas fecharon en unos 130.000 años en un estudio publicado en Nature en 2017. En el otro, […]

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Scientists Disagree by 100,000 Years on When Humans Reached the Americas — Genetics Is Narrowing It Down to the Freezing Depths of the Last Ice Age

Proposed dates for the arrival of the first humans in the Americas span more than 100,000 years. At one end sits Cerutti, a site in California that Holen and colleagues dated to about 130,000 years ago in a 2017 study in Nature. At the other is Swan Point, in Alaska, at around 14,200 years old: […]

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Victor Glover, Artemis 2 pilot: ‘This race, for us, is not about beating China to the Moon. We will, but this race is to get humans to Mars’

Five months ago, four excited girls walked into a maximum-security area with their mother wearing the same black T-shirt printed with a photo of their father. Minutes later, he emerged from a building guarded by the military, amid camera flashes and television cameras, and looked at them with moist eyes from the other side of the fence. He could not approach or touch them. He had to respect quarantine, because in a few hours he would board the most powerful crewed rocket in history and head to the Moon. Without speaking, they said everything to each other, and the rest of the world understood them.

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NASA astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the Artemis 2 mission, on April 16 in Houston.
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Roma abandonó el limes germano hacia el 260, pero alguien siguió usando el lugar: descubren un pueblo romano con un templo de Marte bajo un bosque en Alemania

A pocos centímetros del suelo del bosque, en las estribaciones orientales del Taunus, queda una parte de la frontera romana que apenas se había mirado. El fuerte de la Kapersburg, cerca de Rosbach vor der Höhe (Hesse, Alemania), es uno de los mejor conservados del limes germano, pero la investigación se había centrado en la […]

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Un rey con cuatro espadas sobre los hombros y una princesa con cinturón dorado: así cubrían de oro a sus muertos los micénicos hace 3.400 años

A finales de julio de 1926, el arqueólogo sueco Axel Persson y su equipo llevaban tres semanas excavando la tumba de cúpula de Dendra, en el sur del Peloponeso, y estaban cansados. El suelo de la cámara había aparecido saqueado, de modo que se volvieron hacia las cuatro fosas abiertas bajo él. En la del […]

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Juan I de Bohemia, el rey ciego que cargó contra el enemigo en la batalla de Crécy guiado por dos caballeros a modo de lazarillos

El 26 de agosto de 1346 se disputó una de las batallas más importantes de la Guerra de los Cien Años, la de Crécy, en la que el ejército inglés de Eduardo III derrotó al francés de Felipe VI de forma tan contundente que permitió al primero sitiar Calais y determinar el sino de la […]

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Rome Gave Up Its German Frontier in the 3rd Century. New Finds Suggest Someone Kept Using the Site

A few inches below the forest floor in the eastern Taunus hills lies a stretch of the Roman frontier that has barely been examined. The Kapersburg fort, near Rosbach vor der Höhe in Hesse, is one of the best preserved on the German limes, the chain of Roman border defences. Research has long concentrated on […]

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A King Buried Under Four Swords: How Mycenaean Greece Turned Its Dead into Gold Sculptures

In late July 1926, the Swedish archaeologist Axel Persson and his team had been digging the beehive-shaped tomb at Dendra, in the southern Peloponnese, for three weeks, and they were tired. The floor of the chamber turned out to have been looted, so they turned to the four pits sunk beneath it. In the eastern […]

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The Blind King Who Rode Into the Battle of Crécy Tied to His Knights – and the Legend That Gave the Prince of Wales His Feathers

On 26 August 1346, English and French armies met at one of the most important battles of the Hundred Years’ War: Crécy. Edward III’s English army crushed the French army of Philip VI. The defeat was so complete that it allowed Edward to lay siege to Calais and tilt the whole war in his favour. […]

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Archaeologists Uncovered a Roman Pottery Workshop With 21 Kilns in France — It Ran for About Three Centuries and Left Evidence of Every Production Step

Dig a trench for a canal that will run 107 kilometres (66 miles) across northern France and you expect scraps: a stretch of road, perhaps, or a lone farmstead. At Sermaize, in the Hauts-de-France region, archaeologists from France’s National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) found something much rarer. It is a complete workshop, with […]

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