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Mud brick EA 32689 from the Temple of Ahmose at Abydos Mud brick EA 32689 (British Museum) from the Temple of Ahmose at Abydos, containing the Nebpehtire pharoah (kingdom name) ring of Pharaoh Ahmose. Its radiocarbon dates support a low chronology to the beginning of the 18th Dynasty. Credit: HJ Bruins, 2018 © The Trustees of the British Museum, London. Shared under Creative Commons ‏CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

New research finds that the New Kingdom in Egypt began later than previously thought

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First-of-its-kind radiocarbon dating of artifacts associated with Pharaoh Ahmose – sampled from the British Museum and the Petrie Museum – suggests that the Thera eruption occurred as early as the Second Intermediate Period, supporting a “low chronology” for the 18th Dynasty
Artist's impression of a protoplanetary disk. Credit: ESA

The Webb Space Telescope finds an abundance of carbon molecules around a young star

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"It's amazing that we can detect and quantify the amount of molecules we know very well on Earth, like benzene, which is actually more than 600 light-years away," said one of the authors of the paper that appeared.
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