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Archaeologists in southern Iraq have uncovered the remains of a tavern dating back nearly 5,000 years they hope will illuminate the lives of ordinary people in the world’s first cities. The US-Italian team made the find in the ruins of ancient Lagash, northeast of the modern city of Nasiriyah, which …

Birds flew erratically above snow-capped buildings. Dogs howled loudly. Then, a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria leveled buildings and killed more than 5,000 people. Social media users claimed that animals were behaving strangely just before the massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake and significant aftershocks. While The Washington Post could not immediately …

The Spanish design icon’s death in France was confirmed by his fashion house today Fashion and perfume designer Paco Rabanne has died aged 88. The death of the Spanish-born designer, who was originally from the Basque Country, was confirmed by his fashion house, Puig, today. He earned worldwide fame for …

In the video game and HBO show The Last of Us, humans struggle to survive after an infectious fungus turns ordinary people into zombies. Creators of the franchise didn’t look far for inspiration — the series is based off a real-life species of fungus that performs a kind of “mind …

Egyptologists have uncovered a Pharaonic tomb near the capital Cairo containing what may be the oldest and “most complete” mummy yet to be discovered in the country, the excavation team leader said on Thursday. The 4,300-year-old mummy was found at the bottom of a 15-meter shaft in a recently uncovered …

Dimension-hopping adventure “Everything Everywhere All at Once” topped the list of films nominated on Tuesday for this year’s Academy Awards as voters chose several crowd-pleasing hits to compete for the best picture prize. “Everything Everywhere,” a science-fiction movie about an exasperated woman trying to finish her taxes, landed 11 nominations, …

The number of journalists killed worldwide significantly increased in 2022, following a decline over the previous three years, according to the United Nations culture agency (UNESCO). In the recently released 2021-2022 freedom of expression report, UNESCO noted the deaths of 86 journalists last year, amounting to one every four days, …

The generational immunity treatment aims to counter the deadly American Foulbrood disease The US Department of Agriculture has granted a conditional license to the first-ever vaccine for bees, Dalan Animal Health announced on Wednesday. The Athens, Georgia-based company has developed an oral prophylactic they hope will be effective against a …

An ancient sarcophagus was returned to Egypt from a museum in the US after authorities determined it was looted. The nearly three meters (9.5ft) tall sarcophagus was housed at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Texas until Egyptian authorities sought it back as part of government efforts to stop the …

Future historians may come to regard 2022 as a hinge in history, marking the end of one era and the beginning of another. Major war returned to Europe, with the attendant threats of nuclear strikes, the door closed firmly shut on the U.S. policy of strategic engagement with China, and …

A photo of Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi hoisting the World Cup trophy in the air has overtaken an egg as the most-liked post on Instagram, with more than 64 million likes. In the series of photos that Messi posted on Monday, the soccer player is seen posing individually and …

More than a hundred new designs discovered in and around Peru’s ancient Nazca plain and surrounding areas could bring new information to light about the mysterious pre-Columbian artworks that have intrigued scientists and visitors for decades. Following two years of field surveys with aerial photos and drones, Peruvian and Japanese …

The Italian authorities have reported 4.6-magnitude earthquakes near the Aeolian Islands Earthquakes and tsunami waves have been registered in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Sicily after a volcano violently erupted on the Italian island of Stromboli on Sunday. According to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), …

The first round of negotiations on a global plastics treaty ended on Friday with a split on whether goals and efforts should be global and mandatory, or voluntary and country-led. According to Press TV, the event, which was first of a planned five sessions of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC), was …

An eruption began in the summit caldera of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, on Sunday night, the U.S. Geological Service’s (USGS) volcanic activity service said. “At this time, lava flows are contained within the summit area and are not threatening downslope communities,” the notification said. However, the …

The animals on a Chinese farm, filmed walking in circles for days, may be suffering from claustrophobia A scientist has offered a rather sad explanation for a bizarre phenomenon in which hundreds of sheep were seen walking in circles for 12 days on a farm in China. Matt Bell, a …

Environmental activists on Friday dumped orange paint over an outdoor sculpture by the American artist Charles Ray in central Paris, the latest in a string of artwork defacements aimed at spurring greater government efforts to fight climate change. The lifesize “Horse and Rider” stands in front of the Bourse de …

COP27 host Egypt is close to signing final agreements to build two wind and solar projects with a combined capacity of a gigawatt (GW) to boost the country’s lagging renewable power development. High levels of solar irradiation, strong winds, and expanses of desert in which to construct plants mean Egypt …

Nodding along to catchy music is not just a human habit, according to Japanese scientists who have discovered that rats also move to the beat of songs by stars like Lady Gaga. Researchers at the University of Tokyo played Mozart, Queen, and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” to rats wearing …

As the global population reaches 8 billion, India, formerly a powerful driver of the number of people on the planet, is experiencing a marked slowdown. Falling fertility rates in the South Asian country have forced at least one state to consider reviewing policies that encouraged families not to go beyond …