Archaeologists put off marble platform which covers bed of Christ in the Holy Sepulcher. National Geographic reports about that.
The slab had been put in the sixteenth century for protection from the pilgrims who wanted to break off snags from the relic.
The Holy Sepulcher is situated in the domical chapel. In 1009 the tomb was destroyed; however, the bed remained intact and afterwards the repairmen works started. In 1555 the bed was covered with the marble platform.
The slab has not been raised any time. The restoration works within the territory of temple complex are ruled by the National technical university of Athens. Even now under the slab ‘a great majority of stone material’ has been found out.
The restoration will have finished by spring 2017. The archaeologists are counting to learn which the original surface of stone was made from as there, according to the legend, the body of Jesus Christ had been residing for three days.
Apart from that, the experts hope to know why Saint Helena decided that verily this cave is the Holy Sepulcher.
Flying to Mars and back a person will get approximately 60 percent of the radiation doze that is considered acceptable for the astronaut in his entire career. Russian and Bulgarian scientists came to such a conclusion on the basis of the data received from the machine Trace Gas Orbiter of mission ‘Eksomars’.
Russian scientists found out the well-kept skull of Siberian unicorn, an extinct woolly mammal Elasmotherium sibiricum from the family of rhinoceros. The age of remains is 29 thousand years. The edition Science alert writes about that.
In the piece of amber at the market in Myanmar a fragment of feathery tail of the tiny dinosaur has been found. As the scientists told, this discovery is originated from the epoch not less than ninety-nine million years ago.
The Patriarch of Rome arranged a meeting with the scientist Stephen Hawking in Papal Academy of science located in Vatican. It is reported by Radio Vaticana.
Astrophysics from Institute of fundamental investigations Tata found out scratch in the earth’s magnetosphere maintaining the protection of the planet from the cosmic rays and solar irradiation.
Brown stone having been found out at the South of England more than ten years ago became the first in the history of science sample of petrified celebrum of dinosaur, as the researchers confirmed.
American meteorologists gave a possible explanation to the existence of the abnormal region at the south from Miami famous as the Bermuda triangle. The appropriate video is accessible at the web-site The Independent.
Finnish researchers who concentrated on the investigation of the north light defined that it is accompanied not only with the great light show but also with specific acoustic fluctuations that can be registered with the help of the specialized equipment.
The company of Elon Mask Space X represented program on colonization of Mars. Mask is planning to build a space ship able to have reached the Red planet for three months and take enough material for the construction of the base.
The group of experts from the USA and Israel used 3D-modelling and X-rays so as to decode passage in ancient Jewish scripture that was too fragile to fold it. However, they succeeded in it.
The astronomers notices the signs of origin of a new planet in the cloud of stardust around the star TW Water Monster located in 176 light years from the Earth.
The week of Israeli cinema will start from the 8-th of September in five cities of Ukraine such as Kyiv (from the 8-th of September, cinema ‘Kyiv’), Odessa (from the 8-th of September – Inotheater), Vinnitsa (from the 16-th of September, cinema ‘Rodina’), Kharkov (from the 22-nd of September, cinema 8 ½), and Lviv (from the 22-nd of September, cinema palace ‘Copernicus’).
One of the recent colonies of wooly mammoths located at the island of Saint Paul near Alaska died more than five thousand years ago because of lack of drinking water, as it is explained by the scientists.
At Cayman Islands the first part of genetically modified mosquitoes are set free – with the help of them authorities intend to fight with the spreading of Zika virus.
Fires that have been set up by people of the epoch of Pleistocene (finished nearly ten thousand years ago) could have encouraged the appearance and spreading of tuberculosis. This fact has been revealed by the biologists from University of New South Wales.
62-year-old professor of Oxford university sir Andrew Wiles was awarded with Abel Prize of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for Fermat theorem proving. This problem has bothered mathematicians from all over the world for several hundreds of years.
