Laura is a science news writer, covering a wide variety of subjects, but she is particularly fascinated by all things aquatic, paleontology, nanotechnology, and exploring how science influences daily life. Laura is a proud former resident of the New Jersey shore, a competitive swimmer, and a fierce defender of the Oxford comma.
ArticleBody:Gold doubloons were not the treasure that archeologists found while studying a famed Greek shipwreck. Instead, some really old almonds were the scientific bounty. Hundreds of ceramic jars of these nutritious nuts were found among the cargo of the Hellenistic-era Kyrenia shipwreck near Cyprus.
Kyrenia Ship Excavation. “PEG was a standard treatment for decades. The trouble is it’s a petroleum product, which means that if you’ve got PEG in the wood, you have this contamination from ancient fossil carbon that makes radiocarbon dating impossible,” said Manning. The Cornell team joined forces with researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands to develop a new method to clean the PEG out of the wood.
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