Tag: oldest
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Long Misidentified, Object in Museum Is Oldest Drilling Tool Found Yet in Egypt
A small metal object excavated almost 100 years ago has been identified as the oldest known drilling tool yet found in Egypt. The news was reported by Archeology Today. The artifact came from a predynastic cemetery at the archeological site of Badari in Upper Egypt and dates to the late 4th millennium BCE. Part of read more
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Researchers Have Found the World’s Oldest Known Rock Art in Indonesia, Dating Back 67,800 Years
Less than two years after discovering a 51,200-year-old cave painting of a pig on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in what was then declared the oldest known figurative artwork, the same researchers have discovered an even older work. The newly dated work, located on the southeastern peninsula of Sulawesi, is a hand stencil dating to read more
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Mater-AI secures £1.5M to tackle one of energy’s oldest problems: wasted heat
UK-based materials innovation startup Mater-AI has raised £1.5 million. Over 70 per cent of global energy, worth over $152 billion annually, is lost as waste heat, from data centres to heavy industry. Yet the last major breakthrough in thermoelectric materials happened in the 1950s with bismuth telluride, the semiconductor used in everyday technologies like heated read more
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