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An ancient fireproof alloy made from gold and netherite scraps, which are smelted from ancient debris found in the Nether dimension. When combined with diamond equipment, the metal creates the game's strongest weapons, tools and armour. [53] [54] Nth Metal DC Comics: A Thanagarian alloy used by Hawkman and Hawkwoman. [55]
Robert J. Dunham published his classification system for limestone in 1962. [2] The original Dunham classification system was developed in order to provide convenient depositional-texture based class names that focus attention on the textural properties that are most significant for interpreting the depositional environment of the rocks.
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
Diamictite (/ ˈ d aɪ. əm ɪ k t aɪ t /; from Ancient Greek dia-: 'through' and meiktós (µεικτός): 'mixed') is a type of lithified sedimentary rock that consists of nonsorted to poorly sorted terrigenous sediment containing particles that range in size from clay to boulders, suspended in a matrix of mudstone or sandstone.
A closeup of a shell midden in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. A midden [a] is an old dump for domestic waste. [1] It may consist of animal bones, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, potsherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and ecofacts associated with past human occupation.
An archaeologist works on the recently discovered remains of a victim in the archaeological site of the ancient city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in AD 79 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in ...
Map of pre-Columbian cultures Poporo Quimbaya in the Gold Museum, Bogotá Colombia Seated gold figure from the Museo de América (Museum of America). Quimbaya artifacts refer to a range of primarily ceramic and gold objects surviving from the Quimbaya civilisation, one of many pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia inhabiting the Middle Cauca River valley and southern Antioquian region of modern ...
Ancient mudbricks are a common source of sebakh. Sebakh ( Arabic : سباخ , romanized : sabākh , less commonly transliterated as sebbakh ) is an Arabic word that translates to "fertilizer". In English, the term is primarily used to describe decomposed mudbricks from archaeological sites, which is an organic material that can be employed both ...