/ 10 November 2022

The sound of devil birds, a soggy ancient discovery, and a very old sentence…

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If you live on the east coast, you might be woken at night by ‘devil birds’… Formally known as Koel, they’re confused by the wet/cool weather, according to experts. Thanks again, La Niña…

Twenty-four Ancient Roman bronze statues have been found in the ruins of a Tuscan bath house, along with 6,000 bronze, silver and gold coins. One expert thinks the statues were immersed in thermal waters in a ritual, hoping the water would give something back. It might have taken 2,300 years, but it seems to have worked…

What’s believed to be the oldest-known written sentence has been discovered in Israel on a head lice comb dated to around 1700 BCE, scientists have confirmed. The inscription – which is written in Canaanite script – reads: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” Sounds itchy…

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