This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

Seals were most often made of stone but also sometimes of bone, ivory, faience, glass, metal, wood, or even sun-dried or baked clay. A recessed inscription was carved onto the cylinder, which produced ...

Subsequently, the patient had surgery that consisted of plantar midfoot ostectomy to remove the bony prominence that had caused the ulcer, midfoot osteotomy with excision of a wedge of bone ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

INJURED Geelong defender Matthew Egan has undergone more surgery on his troublesome foot. In an operation this week, surgeons fused Egan’s navicular bone to one of the cuneiform bones in his foot. The ...

Nov. 6, 2024 — Children whose mothers took extra vitamin D during pregnancy continue to have stronger bones at age seven, according to ... Two Key Genes Identified Linking Rheumatoid Arthritis a ...

She knew that deep inside the cave lay thousands of bones. Small bones and large bones, jawbones and ankle bones, finger bones and foot bones and skulls. The bones belonged to strange creatures ...

Why breast cancer spreads to bone Date: October 18, 2024 Source: Tampere University Summary: Researchers have developed an in vitro cancer model to investigate why breast cancer spreads to bone ...

This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period, individuals moved freely as well ...

It’s called “liquid gold” on TikTok. We asked experts if there’s any science behind the health claims. Credit...Eric Helgas for The New York Times Supported by By Alice Callahan Q: I’ve ...