Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

The zona incerta (ZI) is a deep brain region originally described by Auguste Forel as an “immensely confusing area about which nothing can be said.” Despite the elusive nature of this structure, ...

In the mid-1960s, a Soviet military topographer was analyzing aerial photos of Ukraine when he came across some unusual shadows. Looking closely at the patterns of plants in a number of fields, he ...

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Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a 1,7200-year-old artifact found in a city where Jesus spent most of his life.

Moon Lidar is a visualization of the data collected by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) mission. According to this factsheet, the visualization includes nearly six billion measurements.

The Babylonian map of the world is the oldest map of the world, in the world. Written and inscribed on clay in Mesopotamia around 2,900-years-ago, it is, like so many cuneiform tablets, incomplete.

Clay tablets at Kurd Qaburstan reveal ancient Mesopotamian culture Artefacts hint at urban life in the Middle Bronze Age city Findings challenge perceptions of ...

The production of higher-resolution global-scale Mars topographic data would be beneficial for the identification of finer geomorphic units. In Mars geomorphology mapping research, some specific ...

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