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☆ Bronze Age-style ship recreates a 4,000-year-old journey
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Fast-forward to seventh century East Anglia in the United Kingdom, where an Anglo-Saxon warrior king was buried alongside exquisite goods within a massive ship. Researchers are hoping to reconstruct the ship — and it’s not the only vessel gaining new life centuries after disappearing from time. Emily Harris/Zayed National MuseumUsing a supply list written on a clay tablet, a team of experts in the United Arab Emirates has reconstructed a Bronze Age ship. Once upon a planetScientists excavated a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth skin from the Siberian permafrost. Love Dalén/Stockholm UniversityThe freezing temperatures of the Siberian permafrost preserved a piece of 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth skin so well that it contains a first-of-its-kind genetic treasure trove.

Persons: it’s, Emily Harris, Shipwrights, Jacob, Alex Braczkowski, Griffith University Jacob, Tibu, Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, James Webb, Ashley Strickland, Katie Hunt Organizations: CNN, East, Zayed National, United Arab Emirates, Zayed National Museum, Griffith University, Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth, International Space Station, NASA, Boeing, European Space Agency, James Webb Space, Penguin, —, CNN Space, Science Locations: Siberia, East Anglia, United Kingdom, Persian, Mesopotamia, Zayed, Abu Dhabi, Sweden, Denmark, Peru, Machu Picchu, Uganda’s, Stockholm, Western Australia

☆ Bronze Age-style ship sails the Persian Gulf 4,000 years after it was designed
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Writings on an ancient clay tablet have allowed experts to reconstruct a Bronze Age ship made of reeds and sail it on a maiden voyage off the coast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is the world’s largest reconstruction of a Bronze Age Magan boat, according to the team. The research project’s goals were to uncover ancient craftsmanship techniques, determine the connections between Bronze Age societies and better understand the role Abu Dhabi once played in Bronze Age trade. After passing five days of trials, the ship sailed toward Saadiyat Island off the coast of Abu Dhabi and the open sea on March 2 and 3. “Seeing the Magan Boat sail on the water for the first time actually took my breath away and brought tears to my eyes.”

Persons: Magan, “, ”, Eric Staples, Abu Dhabi, Emily Harris, Umm, Robert B, Jackson, ” Jackson, Peter Magee, Marwan Abdullah Al, Marzouqi, ” Marzouqi, Abdallah Alremaithi, Ayesha Almansoori, Tayla Clelland, Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, ” Clelland Organizations: CNN, United, United Arab Emirates, Zayed University, Zayed National Museum, Zayed National Museum , New York University, British Museum, ., Department of Culture Locations: Abu Dhabi, United Arab, Persian, UAE, Oman, Mesopotamia, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Zayed National Museum ,, Zayed National Museum , New York University Abu Dhabi, Umm, South Asia, Girsu, what’s, Saadiyat, Tourism, “

☆ Spain's Catholic Church to Compensate Sexual Abuse Victims
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Nov. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Catholic Church said on Friday it would compensate victims of sexual abuse even in cases that have not been concluded because the offending priest has died, representing a shift from its previous position. And if that moral conclusion is reached, then there will be that moral reparation," Garcia Magan added after announcing that Spanish bishops had unanimously approved an "integral plan" to compensate victims. The Church had until now refused to compensate victims in cases where the abuser had died, a frequent occurrence. It follows other sexual abuse scandals involving the Catholic Church in a number of countries including the United States, Ireland and France. The ombudsman's report also criticised the Church for not cooperating fully with the investigation and for seeking to "minimise the phenomenon".

Persons: Francisco Garcia Magan, Garcia Magan, Charlie Devereux, Emma Pinedo, Gareth Jones Organizations: Catholic Church, Spanish Bishops ' Conference, Catholic Locations: MADRID, Spanish, Spain, United States, Ireland, France

Now, many Israelis are getting the date tattooed on their bodies to commemorate the dead and missing, and bear witness to the collective tragedy. University student Gal Nishman got a tattoo on his back in black and blue ink combining a Star of David with the numerals 7/10. On the other, there is blue, the Star of David, Israel, (showing) that we're here to win." She also had a large lotus flower tattooed on her forearm, saying it represented Israeli residents of the south. "It grows with glory and flourishes even in murky water, especially in murky water," she said.

Persons: Roey Benezri, Levy, Gal Nishman, David, haven't, Sheli Eliel, Hadas, Crispian Balmer, Nuha Sharaf Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Hamas, University, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Eilat, Israel, EILAT, Magan Michael

☆ Vast Refugee Camp in Kenya Swells as Drought Hits Somalia
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Michael M. Phillips | Photographs Natalia Jidovanu For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

DADAAB REFUGEE COMPLEX, Kenya—Magan Noor Abdi was 17 with three children the first time she fled Somalia. It was 2010, and famine was coming. The second time was a decade later. Al-Shabaab militants infiltrating her hometown had beaten her husband so badly that he couldn’t support a family that had grown to eight children.

☆ Passengers' hats and belongings were sucked out of a plane after a door opened mid-flight, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

There were 25 passengers and six crew members on board the IrAero flight, the carrier said. Passengers lost some items as they were sucked out of the cabin, Magan Airport told the outlet. Not long after taking off from Magan Airport, the plane's rear entry ramp door slid open while the aircraft was at around 9,000 ft, per the news outlet. "Fortunately, the 25 people on board, including the crew, were unharmed," a report from Magan airport said, via the Independent. Representatives for IrAero and Magan airport did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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