The Library of Congress reportson how itsPreservation Research and Testing Divisionused multispectral imaging to bring out previously illegible place names ona 16th-century portolan chart of the east coast of North America. Initially the PRTD was brought in to confirm that the chart was legit before...
The USA is a big place. Really big. Within the wide-open spaces of the contiguous United States, as well as Alaska and the far-flung islands of Hawaii, there’s just about every climate and ecosystem you can imagine; from temperate rainforests and pine-clad mountains to deserts and scrubla...
Located in the Amsterdam City Centre district, ClinkCoco is 600 meters from the Heineken Experience and only one block away from the Albert Cuyp market, Europe’s largest daily open-air market, Leidseplein, Rembrandtplein and some of the city’s major museums. Also located on the border of o...
Rivers of ice poured out from ice-filled glacial bowls on the south east flanks of Mt Lee, Mt Clarke, Carruthers Peak, and Mt Twynam. The current valleys of Club Lake Creek, Blue Lake Creek, Twynam Creek would be brimming with glacial ice grinding bedrock to a pulp on its way to join...
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Many bone sickle handles and flint sickle edges dating from between circa 9000 and 7000 bce have been found in Palestinian sites. In Mesopotamia and Iran, remains of this period appear in caves on the lower slopes of the Zagros Mountains between western Iran and Iraq. The date of the ...