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The first known records of soap-making date to Babylon around 2800 BCE, where ancient peoples developed crude cleansing ... with cities such as Aleppo, Nablus, and Damascus emerging as leading ...

A newly uncovered document at the Alliance Museum, a virtual museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Jewish communities linked to the Alliance Israélite Universelle, offers fresh insight into ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

But those experts may have a surprising new answer thanks to new research that shows the ancient people of the Philippines and ISEA may have mastered seafaring well before anyone else. Proving ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

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