Patricia Sophia

The World’s Oldest Surviving City Is A Debated Topic, But Contenders Include Jericho, Middle East, With Continuous Settlement Evidence From Around 9,000 BCE. Damascus; Aleppo, Syria; And Faiyum, Egypt Are Also Ancient Cities With Long Human Habitation Histories, Dating Back To ~ 3,000 BCE, Possibly 6, 000 BCE, And ~ 5,500 BCE, Respectively.

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Researchers Have Discovered That A Hydrogen Consuming Enzyme, Huc, Found In Soil Bacteria, Could Generate Electricity From Air. The Study Also Revealed That Huc Could Be Stored For A Long Time At Freezing Temperature Or Up To 80 oC Without Losing Its Electric Generating Power–Making It A Potential GroundBreaking Source Of Clean Energy.

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An Arctic Walrus, For The First Time In Over 25 Years, Was Spotted Along The W. Coast Of Scotland. Walrus Are Long Distance Travelers, And Some Experts Are Speculating This To Be The Same Walrus Seen In Netherlands, France, England, & Iceland. 2 Walrus Groups Are Thought To Exist In The Wild: ~25,000 Atlantic And ~ 200,000 Pacific Walruses.

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The Volcanic Eruption, Near Reykjavik, Will Be Iceland Longest In 50 Yrs. The Lava Began Spilling On 3/19/2021, For ~6 Mths, From A Fissure Close To Mount Fagradalsfjall. However, The 143 MCUM Lava Spew, Is Smaller Than Iceland Biggest Lava Flow, In 230 Yrs, From The Shorter-Lived Holuhraun Eruption. Iceland Longest Eruption Lasted 4 Yrs.

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An Egyptian Mummy Thought To Be That Of An Ancient Male Priest, Turned Out To Be The First Well Preserved Pregnant Egyptian Mummy Ever Discovered. The Mummy, Between Ages 20 To 30 And 26 To 30 Weeks Pregnant, Dates Back More Than 2000 Years, During Cleopatra’s Reign. And The Mummy May Provide New Possibilities For Pregnancy Studies In Ancient Times.

An Archaeologist Has Discover, In Italy, A 2000 Year Old Marble Head That Depicts The First Roman Emperor, Augustus Octavian, At A Young Age. The Head, 35cm High, Dated To Between 20 BC And 10 AD, Was Found In Isernia, Previously Called Aesernia, An Ancient Roman Colony. Augustus Became Rome’s First Emperor In 27 BC.

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The Remains Of A High-Status Roman Villa Was Uncovered In Britain, During An Excavation In Eastfield. The Layout Style Of The Structure, Which Could Be The First In The World, Has Never Been Seen In Britain And Probably In The Whole Of The Old Roman Empire. But Why Was This Villa Built At This Roman Outpost, And What Was It Use(s)?

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Archeologists Have Made The Most Significant Archaeological Discovery In Egypt Since The 1920s. The Find Is A 3400 Year Old City Called “The Rise Of Aten,” Which Was The Largest Administrative And Industrial Centre Along The West Bank Of Luxor During The Reign Of Amenhotep III, The 9th Pharaoh Of Ancient Egypt 18th Dynasty.

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What Is Probably The World’s Oldest Beer Factory, Built To Provide Beer For Royal Rituals, Was Discovered In Abydos, An Ancient Burial Ground In The Desert, Over 280 Miles South Of Cairo. The Factory Is Said To Date Back To King Narmer, Who Unified Ancient Egypt At The Beginning Of The First Dynastic Period (3150 B.C.- 2613 B.C.).

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The Future Uses Of Superconductors Is Left To The Imagination As Scientists Have Discovered The First Material That Can Superconduct Electricity At Room Temperature To 15° C, But Under A Very High Pressure, About 2.6 Million Times That Of Earth’s Atmosphere. Current Superconducts Must Be Cooled, Even To Very Low Temperature, To Function.

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A Study Is Indicating That The Fall Of The Roman Republic Around 43 BCE, After The Assassination Of Julius Caesar, Coincides With The Massive Eruption Of Okmok Volcano In Alaska. And This Eruption May Have Hastened The Republic’s Fall Via Devastating Climate Change, which Led To Crop Failure, Famine, And Disease. Really!

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Researchers Think That They May Have Found The Tomb Of The Last Queen Of Ancient Egypt, Queen Cleopatra, In A Place Known As Taposiris Magna. Cleopatra Is Famous For Marrying The Roman Emperor Julius Caesar. She Is Said To Have Died In 53BC, By Suicide, From A Venomous Snake Bite. Her Death Ended The 3,000-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Empire.

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For The First Time, A Technique Used For Reproducing Vocal Tracks Have Been Successfully Used To Reconstruct Sound, Courtesy Of A Well Preserved Soft Tissue, From A 3000-Year-Old Mummy Called Nesyamun, An Egyptian Priest During The Reign Of Pharaoh Ramses XI. The Technology Used Were Non-Destructive CT Scans, 3D Printing, And An Electronic Larynx.

This’s A First Time Hearing Of A Rare Medical Condition Called “Auto-Brewery Syndrome (ABS).” Someone With ABS Would Get Drunk Because The Body Is Producing Alcohol Due To Yeast, In The Gut, Which Converts Carbohydrates In The Food One Eats To Alcohol. Fortunately, ABS Can Be Treated With Antifungal Therapies And Probiotics.

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The Strongest Known Living Electricity Source, Of The Three Species Of Electric Eels: Electrophorus voltai, Electrophorus electricus, And Electrophorus varii Is Electrophorus voltai, Which Scientists Say Can Generate 860 Volts of Electricity. Electric Eels Inspired Physicist Alessandro Volta First Battery Design In 1799.

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A DNA Scientists, Dr. Neil Gemmel, Based On The DNA Analysis From Loch Ness, Scotland, Is Speculating That The Loch Ness Monster Could Be A Giant Eel, As There Are A Lot Of Eel DNA From The Samples Collected. However, 20% Of DNA Are Still Unencoded, Which Could Leave Room For The Existence Of A Loch Ness Monster. And So, The Mystery Continues.

Seamus Blackley, A Scientist, A Bread Nerd And Also The Father Of Xbox Made Bread From Yeast, Which He Found Inside 4,500-Year-Old Pots, From Ancient Egypt, At Museum of Fine Arts. The Bread, According To Blackley, Was Off This Modern Era. And Shockingly, The Wife Ate Some Of It. Hmm! Some Guts!

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Researchers May Have Demystified The Origin Of The Elusive Loch Ness Monster By Comparing The Number Of Mysterious Long-Neck Monster’s Described By 1800s To Those By 1930s. They Observed That The Description Increased From 10% To 50% By 1930s, When Dinosaurs, Including Marine Reptiles With Long Necks, Were Displayed In British Museums.

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