The 17-character sentence in Canaanite script appears on a 3,000-year-old comb found in Israel.
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Isaac Schultz
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Science writer at Gizmodo, previously of Atlas Obscura. A native New Yorker. Mostly covering ancient things (on Earth and beyond) and masses extremely big or incredibly small.
The dense, dormant object is hiding in plain sight.
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Two archaeological sites in Brazil are revealing the genetic ancestry of some of the continent’s earliest humans.
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This animal livestream is a snowy palette cleanser.
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These are the IXPE mission’s first observations of a mass-accreting black hole.
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NASA’s latest space observatory captures an iconic site.
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At nearly 1.5 kilometers wide, it's the largest such asteroid discovered in eight years.
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A future mission will pick up these rock cores and bring them to Earth, where scientists will search them for signs…
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The impact was intense enough that NASA's InSight lander detected the seismic waves from over 2,000 miles away.
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The iconic arms of the Eagle Nebula are zombie-skin blue in this view from the MIRI tool.
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The NASA lander is on its last legs, but it's still revealing details about Mars’ volcanism, seismology, and even…
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These merging galaxies look slightly different, depending on which telescope you use.
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A resilient microbe is boosting researchers’ hopes for life on Mars.
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Human remains found in two caves are more than 13,500 years old.
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A genetic analysis of bones and teeth revealed kinship between a group of Neanderthals.
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At this rate, the infrared space observatory is going to need a vacation.
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For all its majesty, the animal kingdom also has its fair share of silly moments.
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An analysis has produced the most precise summation to date of the universe’s dark energy and dark matter contents.
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