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ISIS harnesses artificial intelligence to lure British teens, sparking MI5 and MI6 vigilance

British security officials told the Telegraph, that jihadist propagandists now used AI systems to translate Arabic material, including editorials from the weekly ISIS newspaper Al-Naba.

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The Louvre Museum

Ancient Greek masterpieces sealed off as Louvre’s southern wing deemed ‘fragile’

Goose embracing woman, oldest human-animal depiction found in Israel.

Israeli team uncovers 12,000-year-old myths in clay figurine of woman and goose

statuette of Christ. Illustration.

800-year-old gilded Christ found near lost medieval church in Norway by detectorist


Over 50 medieval skeletons unearthed in central Aarhus graveyard

Excavation by Moesgaard Museum during installation of new waste containers will use carbon dating and DNA tests to explore early Christianity in the city.

Graveyard. Illustration.

Ancient Crocodile Species Discovered in Egypt Sheds Light on Evolutionary History

“The discovery underlines the Western Desert’s importance as a natural repository of secrets from ancient geological eras,” said Mansoura university president.

Life reconstruction of Wadisuchus kassabi from the Late Cretaceous of Egypt, showing an adult capturing a lungfish in a wetland, with a juvenile nearby. The scene highlights the ancient ecosystem, including turtles and lush vegetation, based on fossil evidence from the Quseir Formation.

Dresden Codex decoded: study unveils the Maya’s 700-year eclipse calculator

“The 405-month eclipse table had emerged from a lunar calendar in which the 260-day divinatory calendar commensurated the lunar cycle,” the authors wrote.

A solar eclipse next to the Mayan pyramid of Kukulcan in the Mexican city of Chichen Itza.

Ancient teeth reveal salmonella and louse-borne fever helped doom Napoleon’s 500,000-man force

Teeth from 13 Grande Armée soldiers in a Vilnius grave give first genetic proof that infections, with famine and cold, helped cause the loss of 300,000 men during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia.

Troops in battle. Illustration.

Bronze bust of Egyptian goddess Isis unearthed at Satala necropolis in Gümüşhane, Turkey

The discovery emerged in the cemetery just north of the Roman walls at a site that once housed the headquarters of Legio XV Apollinaris on the empire’s eastern frontier.

Bronze bust of Egyptian goddess Isis unearthed at Satala necropolis in Gümüşhane, Turkey.

Opium residue found in an Ancient Egyptian vase, rewriting the story of Tutankhamun’s tomb raids

Analysis detected morphine, thebaine, noscapine and other opiate alkaloids, providing the first scientific identification of the contents of an inscribed egyptian alabastron.

The Egyptian, alabaster vase that was analyzed.

First Assyrian inscription ever found in Jerusalem uncovered near western wall

Israel’s antiquities authority reports discovery of an Assyrian inscription from the first temple period - evidence of an assyrian presence in the kingdom of judah.

The stone fragment found.

Archaeologists find intact Merian axe from tenth century near Rostov, Russia

The Merians were a Finno-Ugric people who lived in the upper Volga basin.

Archaeologists find intact Merian axe from tenth century near Rostov, Russia.

Chinese woman charged in 1.5 million euro gold nugget theft from Paris Natural History Museum

She was arrested at Barcelona airport on September 30 with about one kilogram of melted gold and remains in provisional detention, according to prosecutors.

the National Museum of Natural History in France.

New scans challenge the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted giant animals to extinction

A study in Royal Society Open Science by Professor Mike Archer shows no evidence that humans hunted or butchered megafauna in the fossil record.

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