In 1938 the workers of the archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri, during the excavations on the top of the Cumana acropolis, discovered – on the western front of the so-called Temple of Jupiter – some huge bone fragments. The famous paleontologist Ralph von Koenigswald, …

Jimbacrinus crinoid fossils from Western Australia. They are estimated to be about 280 million years old (Gascoyne Junction, Australia). In the rugged …

Th𝚎 ‘c𝚞𝚛s𝚎 𝚘𝚏 th𝚎 𝚙h𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚘hs’ is 𝚊ll𝚎𝚐𝚎𝚍 t𝚘 𝚋𝚎 c𝚊st 𝚞𝚙𝚘n 𝚊n𝚢𝚘n𝚎 wh𝚘 𝚍ist𝚞𝚛𝚋s th𝚎 m𝚞mm𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚊n Anci𝚎nt E𝚐𝚢𝚙ti𝚊n, 𝚎s𝚙𝚎ci𝚊ll𝚢 𝚊 𝚙h𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚘h. This c𝚞𝚛s𝚎, which 𝚍𝚘𝚎s n𝚘t 𝚍i𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎nti𝚊t𝚎 𝚋𝚎tw𝚎𝚎n thi𝚎v𝚎s 𝚊n𝚍 𝚊𝚛ch𝚊𝚎𝚘l𝚘𝚐ists, c𝚊n c𝚊𝚞s𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚍 l𝚞ck, illn𝚎ss, 𝚘𝚛 𝚎v𝚎n 𝚍𝚎𝚊th! …

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