2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (572+ words) Epigraphy—the study of inscriptions—connects the writing with the object and the place where it was found. A useful way to understand the process is to follow three different clues: the marks themselves, the language, and the evidence for…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (511+ words) Venus can reach its greatest brilliance while a telescope shows only a crescent. A nearly full Venus exposes more of its sunlit hemisphere, yet that does not necessarily deliver more light to Earth. The missing part of the explanation is…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (637+ words) Satellite constellations can leave bright trails across telescope images. Here is what that means for astronomy and the night sky. Satellites are changing the night sky in a way that has little to do with the old glow of city…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (783+ words) A collection of 50 battered parchment fragments has been joined into a page of Roman law that had been broken apart for centuries. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati matched seven of the largest pieces from the Penn Museum and reconstructed…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (653+ words) Fragments of clothing have survived inside an eighth-century Viking woman’s grave in western Denmark, giving archaeologists a rare chance to study what she wore. The pieces were found attached to two concave "scoop" brooches from a burial at Skonager, near…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (717+ words) TIC 433545934 contains two pairs of stars locked in a wider orbit. The pairs eclipse internally, and observations also caught one binary crossing the other—a rare geometry that lets astronomers measure four stars together. Astronomers have identified a four-star system…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (693+ words) A chemical survey of 91 Bronze Age iron artefacts found that a small group of rings probably came from meteorites. Their tomb contexts suggest that “iron from the sky” carried status long before iron smelting became common. Long before iron ore…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (484+ words) An excavation in Uzbekistan is bringing archaeologists, materials scientists and environmental researchers together around a single ancient furnace. At Abu Muslim Qala, in the historic Khorezm region, a Purdue-led project has uncovered the remains of a settlement and a large…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (475+ words) How does dendrochronology date ancient buildings? By reading the growth history recorded inside wood. In regions where trees respond to changing seasons, each year leaves a pattern of wide and narrow rings. When a wooden beam from an old structure…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (696+ words) A 2,200-year-old wreck off Croatia preserved more than timber and amphorae. Its sticky hull coatings trapped pollen that now gives archaeologists a record of where the ship was built and repaired. Before your next upload Clean image metadata before you…...