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Monday, May 24
May 24, 2010

Forty-five tombs, most of which contain at least one sarcophagus and a mummy, have been discovered in Egypt’s Fayum Oasis. The oldest of the burials is about 4,500 years old. Human hunters in the Americas may have triggered the frozen period known as the Younger Dryas by killing plant-eating, methane-producing megafauna. Scientists have noted that […]

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