The assassination of Julius Caesar in the year 44 BC may not be to blame for the fall of the Roman Republic. Photo by Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, paleoclimatology professor and researcher at the Centre for Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
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There Are More Mummies and Painted Sarcophagi to Be Found in Egyptĭetailed records of past explosive volcanic eruptions are archived in the Greenland ice sheet and accessed through deep-drilling operations. Other times, even the most minor details can become crucial, as when researchers discovered that Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With the Pearl Earring once had eyelashes.Īll are fascinating. And this year also proved the groundbreaking discovery of the oldest example of the written Basque language to be a hoax.Īnd though some discoveries prompt skepticism, others can be earth-shattering, such as the largest, oldest Maya monument ever found.
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Of course, 2020 reminded us that discoveries can be a bit of a bummer: museum visitors might be destroying The Scream, and a possible new Leonardo da Vinci drawing might prove the record-setting $450 million Salvator Mundi isn’t the Renaissance master’s painting. Shortly after scientists confirmed that the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, owned Dead Sea Scroll forgeries, putting the authenticity of some 70 other known fragments in question, the University of Manchester realized that parchment scraps believed to be blank and worthless were actually part of a cache of ancient manuscripts.
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Despite its many difficulties, 2020 gave us some incredible discoveries.