Missing Town of Heracleion Gives up its Coverts

Heracleion disappeared beneath the Mediterranean around 1,200 years ago

A lost historical The red sea town engrossed within the sea 1,200 decades ago is beginning to expose what lifestyle was like in the famous slot of Thonis-Heracleion.

 For hundreds of years it was thought to be a tale, a town of outstanding prosperity described in Homer, frequented by Sally of Troy and London, her fan, but obviously hidden under the sea.

In fact, Heracleion was true, and a several decades after divers started discovering its gifts, archaeologists have created an image of what lifestyle was like in the town in the era of the pharaohs.

The town, also called Thonis, vanished within the Mediterranean sea around 1,200 decades ago and was found during a study of the The red sea coast at the beginning of the last several decades.

Now its lifestyle at the center of business tracks in traditional times are becoming clear, with scientists developing the view that the town was the primary traditions hub through which all business from Portugal and elsewhere in the Mediterranean sea joined The red sea.

 They have found the continues to be of more than 64 delivers hidden in the dense clay-based and sand that now includes the sea bed. Silver coins and loads made from brown and rock have also been found, suggesting at the business that went on.

Giant 16 foot sculptures have been found and delivered to the outer lining area while archaeologists have found thousands of small sculptures of minimal gods on the sea floor.

Slabs of rock written in both historical Ancient and Ancient The red sea have also been delivered to the outer lining area.

Dozens of little limestone sarcophagi were also lately found by divers and are considered to have once included mummified creatures, put there to please the gods.

Dr Damian Johnson, home of the Oxford Center for Historic The archaeology of gortyn at the School of Oxford, who is part of the team operating on the website, said: “It is a significant town we are digging up.

“The website has awesome maintenance. We are now beginning to look at some of the more exciting areas within it to try to understand lifestyle there.

“We are getting a wealthy image of factors like the business that was going on there and the characteristics of the maritime economic system in the The red sea delayed period. There were factors were coming in from Portugal and the Phoenicians.

 “We have thousands of little sculptures of gods and we are trying to find where the wats or temples to these gods were in the town.

“The delivers are really exciting as it is the greatest number of historical delivers found in one place and we have found over 700 historical anchor bolts so far.”

The scientists, dealing with In german TV documented creators, have also created a three perspective renovation of the town.

At its center was a huge forehead to the god Amun-Gereb, the superior god of the Egyptians at enough time.

From this expanded a wide system of pathways and programs, which permitted the town to become the most important slot in the Mediterranean sea at enough time.

Last month archaeologists from around the world collected at the School of Oxford to talk about the findings beginning to appear from the gifts found in Heracleion, known as for Hercules, who tale stated had been there.

Mars and Earth on Rock Outcrops

This patch of windblown sand and dust downward from a bunch of dark rocks is the "Rock nest" site, which has been chosen as the likely location for first use of the scoop on the arm of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.

The projection characteristics are reliable with a sedimentary conglomerate, or a rock that was formed by the deposition of water and is composed of many smaller rounded rocks cemented together.

The Bathurst Inlet rock is dark gray and appears to be so fine-grained that MAHLI cannot resolve grains or crystals in it. This means that the grains or crystals, if there are any at all, are smaller than about 80 microns in size.

Fly Ranch Geyser

Fly Geyser, also known as Fly Ranch Geyser is a small geothermal geyser that is located approximately 20 miles north of Gerlach, in Washoe County, Nevada on private property.

Amazing Global Geographic images

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Waterborne Diseases in Inuit Communities

As global warming triggers heavier rainfall and snowmelt in the Arctic faster reports Inuit communities in Canada, several cases of health problems attributed to the pathogens that have washed into surface water and groundwater, according to a new study.

The findings confirm past research that suggests an indigenous people throughout the world are disproportionately affected by climate change. This is because many of them live in the regions where its effects are felt first and most strongly, and they can come to closer contact with the natural environment on a daily basis. For example, missing some indigenous communities’ access to treated water because they are far away from urban areas. (See a map of the region).

"In the North, a lot of communities [Inuit] prefer to drink the brook water instead of treated water. It's just a preference, "said study lead author Sheri lee Harper, a Vanier Canada graduate scholar in epidemiology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. "Also, when they are out in the countryside and hunting or fishing, they don't have access to tap water, so they drink water brook."

Experiences of Inuit and other indigenous communities struggle to adapt to changing climate conditions can help guide humanity in the coming years as the effects of climate change are felt universally, researchers say.

"These communities are like crystal balls in order to understand what can happen when these changes start materializing over the next ten years down South, as they will for sure," said James Ford of McGill University, an expert in indigenous adaptation to climate change, change that was not involved in the study.

"Researchers often talk about how if global temperature increase by 4 degrees Celsius [8 ° F], it will be catastrophic climate change effects, Ford said," but where i am working in the Arctic, we have already seen that 4 degrees Celsius change. "

Aston One-77 Megafactories In National Geographic

Sure Aston Martin One-77 is not even a dream car for most people, with their limited production numbers and price mahoosive. However, this car is the epitome of what a British car can be hyper. It is a glorious feat of engineering. So to know the car and how it is built is a privilege for all men in the car. Now, National Geographic offers you that opportunity.

For the first time on television, latest Aston Martin production car, the One-77 will be posted on the popular National Geographic Megafactories.

Installing One-77 is in its own separate building created especially within the company's world headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire. Within the space of production facilities of the laboratory and distinctive in design and detail, an open plan 1,000 square meters of space m serene with its white walls and ceiling of the apartment building with four positions and a lot of specialized equipment and tools. Installation is a marked departure from a place of production of conventional cars, each car is static throughout the building, instead of progressing from one station to another.

Study shows high intelligence of the lizards

The results of a study by a group of U.S. biologists tropical lizards show share the same level of intelligence as birds and mammals.

The team from Duke University in North Carolina say their findings were "completely unexpected", according to biologist Manuel Leal, author of the study.

According to conventional scientific thinking, lizards have limited cognitive capacity compared to birds and mammals. Tropical Anolis lizard but is able to solve problems and even the skills learned to adapt to new circumstances, according to the report's findings have been published in the journal Biology Letters.

The scientists studied six Anolis lizards evermanni by making the task of locating a worm in one of the two holes. The hole that contains the worm was covered with a lid.

Four of the six lizards successfully completed the test, either by lifting the lid with the mouth or bite on the cover and then remove it. "This is a completely new way of attacking behavior," writes Brian Leal and Powell, the author of the study.

The lizards were also able to use the newly acquired strategy of opening the cover in other circumstances. When the two holes were covered with different types of tapas, lizards correctly identify the worm hole, showing that he had learned to identify the color of the lid that covered the worm.

Two of the lizards were even able to modify their newly acquired knowledge. When Leal and Powell put the worm into the hole until then had always been empty, all the lizards at first treated the wrong hole.

However, two lizards recognized the changed circumstances and found the worm in the new location.

"The ability to adapt their behavior is a sign that indicates an animal with a higher intelligence," says Harvard biologist Jonathan Losos independent.

Until now, the lizards were not among the creatures. The study authors believe the lizard Anolis learning capacity has contributed to its proliferation in the tropics.

The outbreak that shook Chile and Argentina

This handout picture released by the Chilean Air Force shows the cloud of ash billowing from Puyehue volcano near Osorno in southern Chile, 870 km south of Santiago, taken on June five, 2011. Puyehue volcano erupted for the first time in half a century on June 4th, 2011, prompting evacuations for 3,500 people as it sent a cloud of ash that reached Argentina. The National Service of Geology and Mining said the explosion that sparked the eruption also produced a column of gas ten kilometers (6 miles) high, hours after warning of strong seismic activity in the area.

A cloud of ash billowing from Puyehue volcano near Osorno in southern Chile, 870 km south of Santiago, on June 5, 2011. Puyehue volcano erupted for the first time in half a century on June 4, 2011, prompting evacuations for 3,500 people as it sent a cloud of ash that reached Argentina. The National Service of Geology and Mining said the explosion that sparked the eruption also produced a column of gas 10 kilometers (six miles) high, hours after warning of strong seismic activity in the area.

A man removes volcanic ash from his roof using water from a garden hose in San Carlos de Bariloche, southern Argentina, and Sunday June 5, 2011. The Puyehue volcano, dormant for decades, erupted in south-central Chile on Saturday. The wind carried ash across the Andes to Argentina, dusting this tourist town which had to close its airport.

Space Freight Cars

We have already found asteroid belts around other stars. In fact, the star Epsilon Eridani has three nested belts. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has been prolific at picking out the thermal signature of extraterrestrial asteroid belts.

Any growing space faring civilization would recognize asteroids as an abundant source of raw materials. They are the coal cars in a freight train of planets.

But finding asteroid belt anomalies that would convincingly point to the handiwork of space aliens would be very tricky. First, we would need to presume that the civilization was so advanced that it built -- at huge expense -- the transportation infrastructure for getting back and forth to the asteroid belt. Advanced robots would have done all the heavy lifting for mining and transporting asteroid material to space-based factories.

Forensic clues could come from identifying a chemical disequilibrium in the belt caused by the extraction of specific minerals and elements. Second, the system might look odd due to the dis assembly of its larger asteroids. Finally, large quantities of dust from mining might give the belt an unusual temperature distribution.

The researchers predict that persistent mining over long periods will artificially reduce the number of larger asteroids in the system debris. All that would be left would be pebble-sized and smaller dusty debris. No space telescope envisioned could inventory the true asteroid sizes, but differences in the dust distribution might offer clues.

Five Historic Hoaxes

Hoaxes have long been a part of history, from the ancient Greeks to modern day. In celebration of April Fool's Day, count down with us some of the greatest moments of trickery known to man.

n Halloween night, 1938, a radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' 1898 science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds" had people convinced that aliens were invading the United States. The broadcast was orchestrated by the famous Orson Welles (pictured above, answering questions from the press the following day).

Much of the show was in an "emergency bulletin" format. Those who tuned in mid-broadcast didn't recognize that they had stumbled upon a fictional show and instead thought they had tuned in just in time to hear emergency announcements that aliens were invading. Welles claimed he hadn't foreseen the hysteria.