In a remarkable archaeological breakthrough, researchers from Johns Hopkins University have uncovered what appears to be the oldest known alphabetic writing, etched onto clay cylinders found in a tomb in Syria. This discovery, dated to around 2400 BCE, predates previously known alphabetic scripts by approximately 500 years, challenging existing theories about the origins and dissemination of alphabetic writing. The writing …
In a new study, researchers from the University of Liege have made a monumental discovery that sheds new light on the ancient history of life on Earth. The team, led by Professor Emmanuelle Javaux, has identified the oldest known microstructures in fossil cells — thylakoid membranes — dating back an astonishing 1.75 billion years. Cyanobacteria with thylakoid membranes are now …
Now that we know life can exist in such conditions, now we need to find out how it evolved, its food chain and other related queries. A group of scientists from the British Antarctic Survey have come across life deep under a floating sheet of ice in Antarctica. The team came across these signs of life in the Filchner-Ronne ice …
There is so much left to be discovered and explored on the Earth even after all these years. Recently, a 100 million-year-old meteorite crater was found while a company in Western Australia was drilling the Earth for gold. According to a report published in The Guardian, the crater’s size is approximately five kilometres in terms of diameter. You wouldn’t know …
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