Laura Geggel
Editor at Live Science
I'm a transplanted Seattleite living in New York who writes and edits for @LiveScience. Tweets are my own.
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3 weeks ago |
livescience.com | Laura Geggel
A 3-year-old girl who was walking with her family along a trail in Israel unexpectedly found a piece of history: a 3,800-year-old scarab amulet. Ziv Nitzan discovered the scarab in March when her family was visiting Tel Azekah, a historical site that was inhabited as early as the Bronze Age. While strolling along a dirt path scattered with gravel, Ziv noticed an interesting rock.
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3 weeks ago |
livescience.com | Laura Geggel
A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit central Myanmar (formerly Burma) Friday (March 28), shaking Mandalay, the country's second-largest city, as well as nearby countries, including China and Thailand, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The shallow earthquake struck at 12:50 p.m. local time (2:20 a.m. EDT) at a depth of about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers), the USGS reported.
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1 month ago |
livescience.com | Laura Geggel
An amateur metal detectorist in Northern England has discovered an "unusual" 2,000-year-old hoard of artifacts that was burned and then buried. The Iron Age finding, named the Melsonby Hoard after the nearby village of Melsonby in North Yorkshire, contains more than 800 artifacts, including a cauldron, wine-mixing bowl, horse riding equipment, pieces of wagons or chariots, a large iron mirror, and ceremonial iron spearheads.
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1 month ago |
livescience.com | Laura Geggel
A Stone Age circular monument in England is even older than Stonehenge, raising the possibility that Stonehenge's creators used it as inspiration, a new study finds. When researchers radiocarbon-dated artifacts from the large monument, known as Flagstones, they found that it dates to about 3200 B.C. — meaning it's about 200 years older than Stonehenge.
Alexander the Great quiz: How well do you know the famous king and conqueror from the ancient world?
2 months ago |
livescience.com | Laura Geggel
Alexander the Great is one of the most famous generals of the ancient world. By the age of 32 he had conquered a massive empire that stretched from the Balkans to modern-day Pakistan. We know about Alexander through many historical texts, including those from the Greek historians Plutarch and Diodorus of Sicily.
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