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[2] [3] According to a 2017 press release from Uppsala University, the grave "...served as a model for what graves for professional Viking warriors looked like. Although several features of the skeleton indicate that it may have belonged to a woman, the assumption has always been that the person buried was a male Viking."
The subsequent rise in sea level raised the local water table and in more recent times the pond has been fed by groundwater as well as rainfall. In 1984, the pond had a thick layer of peat, with five strata described by the archaeologists who excavated the pond. The peat in the center of the pond was covered by 6 feet (2 m) of water. [3]
Tel Megiddo (from Hebrew: תל מגידו), is the site of the ancient city of Megiddo (Greek: Μεγιδδώ), the remains of which form a tell or archaeological mound, situated in northern Israel at the western edge of the Jezreel Valley about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southeast of Haifa near the depopulated Palestinian town of Lajjun and subsequently Kibbutz Megiddo.
Alternatively spelled as "reaya". [9] Considered to be the class that was ruled over. Made up of merchants, artisans, and peasants and were the taxed class. [10] This group was largely Muslim, though their Christian counterparts were also placed under the same label. [5]
The Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye is an American all-weather, carrier-capable tactical airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft. This twin-turboprop aircraft was designed and developed during the late 1950s and early 1960s by the Grumman Aircraft Company for the United States Navy as a replacement for the earlier, piston-engined E-1 Tracer, which was rapidly becoming obsolete.
The World Tree or Tree of Life is a central symbol in Turkic mythology, and may have its origin in Central Asia. [20] According to the Altai Turks, human beings are actually descended from trees. According to the Yakuts , Ak Ana sits at the base of the Tree of Life, whose branches reach to the heavens and are occupied by various supernatural ...
2C-E is a psychedelic phenethylamine of the 2C family. It was first synthesized by Alexander Shulgin [ 1 ] and documented in his book PiHKAL . Like the other substances in its family, it produces sensory and cognitive effects in its physical reactions with living organisms.
Solidified lava flow in Hawaii Sedimentary layers in Badlands National Park, South Dakota Metamorphic rock, Nunavut, Canada. Geology (from Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) 'earth' and λoγία () 'study of, discourse') [1] [2] is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. [3]