Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson have added four further novel proofs of the theorem that had also not been published before, and left clues for another five.

The British Museum has solved the mystery of the Babylonian world map, which is almost 3,000 years old. A recent video from the British Museum reveals new insights into the world’s oldest map: a Babylonian clay tablet called the Imago Mundi. Dating back to the 7th century BC, this ancient map, inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform, was found in Sippar (modern Abu Habba, Iraq) and acquired by the British Museum in 1882. Despite its significance, it remained a mystery until curators recently transcribed its inscriptions. The tablet shows a top-down view of Mesopotamia, framed by a circular “bitter river” representing the boundary of the known world. The British Museum has solved the mystery of the Babylonian world map, which is almost 3,000 years old. Inside this circle, symbols mark various cities, including Babylon, and the Euphrates River cutting through Mesopotamia, reflecting the Babylonians’ belief that their land was the center of the world. Dr. Irving Finkel, a British Museum curator, explains that the tablet not only depicts geography but also explores the Babylonians’ vision of lands beyond their known world. This included mythical creatures, like the scorpion-man and a lion-headed bird named Anzu, and hints at a well-known flood story that predates the Bible. In this story, a Babylonian Noah figure, Utnapishtim, built an ark by divine command, which came to rest on a mountain beyond the “bitter river.” The tablet also shows the Babylonians’ belief in gods like Marduk, the creator deity, and creatures like the scorpion-man and the Anzu, a lion-headed bird. Dr. Finkel notes that this map not only captures the known world but also hints at the Babylonians’ imaginations of lands beyond—fusing reality, myth, and geography into a single ancient vision. The post 3,000-Year-Old World’s Oldest Map Deciphered appeared first on Anomalien.com.

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A passage in the Norse "Sverris Saga," the 800-year-old story of King Sverre Sigurdsson, describes a military raid that occurred in AD 1197, during which a body was thrown into a well at Sverresborg Castle, outside Trondheim in central Norway, likely as an attempt to poison the main water source for the local inhabitants.

For the first time, EPFL researchers have exclusively observed molecules participating in hydrogen bonds in liquid water, measuring electronic and nuclear quantum effects that were previously accessible only via theoretical simulations.

Fine-tuning the reactions that produce hydrogen (H2) for use as a clean fuel is an important endeavor to fight against climate change. Researchers at Tohoku University and the Tokyo University of Science have succeeded in improving the catalytic activity for this reaction. The researchers established a synthesis method that can control the surface structure of small metal particles with a diameter of about 1 nm.

In cooperation with researchers from the China University of Petroleum, the working group of Dr. Werner Nau, Professor of Chemistry at Constructor University, has demonstrated the effectiveness of a new method of intracellular protein transport.

Research from Dr. Giovanni Sena's group in the Department of Life Sciences highlights an intriguing method to help protect plants from pathogen attacks using weak electric fields.