In England, Archaeologists found a mysterious purple lump and it turns out that this was at one time worth more than gold. The lump was actually a very rare purple dye that was used in ancient ...
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A dig on the grounds of the Carlisle Cricket Club in the U.K. has turned up a mysterious lump of a substance that researchers have identified as the pigment Tyrian purple. Their latest ...
An atmospheric phenomenon known as STEVE has a secret twin that appears before the break of dawn and flows in the opposite direction, new research finds. A purple ribbon of light in the sky known ...
An enigmatic L-shaped structure found underground near the pyramids at Giza may be an entrance to a mysterious deeper feature below it. Using remote sensing techniques, archaeologists in Egypt ...
A man was left shocked after he spotted a mysterious creature with "venomous spines" that had washed up on a beach. Dennis Chan said he stumbled across the "uncommon sight" which was buried in the ...
The Kangju people lived in Central Asia (southern Kazakhstan) for nearly a millennia, but experts know very little about them. A new discovery of artifacts, recovered from a 2,000-year-old burial ...
Artist's view of exoplanet SPECULOOS-3 b orbiting its star. The planet is as big as the Earth, while its star is slightly larger than Jupiter, but much more massive. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via Courthouse ...
We thought we broadly understood how planets and stars form. But the discovery of dozens of pairs of young planets in a nearby nebula threatens to turn that on its head. They are worlds that ...
Archaeologists in the United Kingdom uncovered a “mysterious lump,” identified as rare Tyrian purple pigment, at a 1,700-year-old Roman bathhouse. Photo from Wardell Armstrong Archaeologists ...
A purple ribbon of light in the sky known as "STEVE" appears to have a long-lost twin. This isn't the plot of a space soap opera; it's a finding from a trio of European Space Agency satellites ...