By Dr. Regan Dunn is Assistant Deputy Director & Associate Curator of the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research La Brea Tar Pits and Adjunct Professor of Earth Sciences at University of Southern California. Originally published at The Conversation. Fifty-six million years ago, Earth’s forests reached a tipping point. They had grown dense,…
An Egyptian archaeological mission working at the Sheikh Soby archaeological site in Egypt’s Bahariya Oasis has uncovered three tombs dating to different periods of ancient Egypt, along with mummies, limestone and pottery coffins, pottery vessels, offering tables and terracotta votive figurines. The excavation season is being led by Sabry Farag, Director General of Antiquities of…
Part the First: They Really Are Serious About Destroying American Science (but that has been clear from the beginning). The Wall Street Journal writes: White House to Direct Billions in Research Funds Toward AI, Away from Colleges (no archive). In a new report and memo released Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology…
Ad Policy Rome’s Colosseum at sunset in downtown Rome on January 10, 2012. (Filippo Monteforte / AFP via Getty Images) Danny and Derek are joined by Jake Nabel, Tombros Early Career Professor of Classical Studies and assistant professor of classics and ancient Mediterranean studies at Penn State, to talk about Roman-Parthian relations in antiquity. The…
An Egyptian archaeological mission working at the Marina El Alamein Archaeological Site on Egypt’s northwestern Mediterranean coast has uncovered 18 ancient tombs, together with a collection of sarcophagi, surface burials and archaeological artefacts, offering new insights into the history and cultural significance of one of Egypt’s most important ancient coastal cities. The latest excavations also…
