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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
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A sculpted relief depicting Ashurbanipal killing a lion, ca 640 BCE, one of many reliefs from the North Palace of Nineveh, excavated by Hormuzd Rassam in 1853-54 and sent back to the British Museum, where an entire room is now devoted to their display (Wikimedia commons)
Hormuzd Rassam, an Assyrian archaeologist, died Sep. 16, 1910, at the age of about 84. In fact, Rassam was an Assyrian Assyriologist, the first...
On Sep 15, 1835, Charles Darwin, aboard HMS Beagle, sailed into the Galápagos Islands, 500 miles west of Ecuador. The Beagle had been at sea for...
Lascaux cave, perhaps the world's most famous repository of prehistoric cave paintings, was discovered on this day, Sep. 12, 1940. The cave lies in...
Mary Proctor, an Irish/American popular science writer, died Sep. 11, 1957, at the age of 95. She was born on Apr. 1, 1862, in Dublin, Ireland, a...
John Turberville Needham, an English microscopist, experimental naturalist, and Catholic priest, was born Sep. 10, 1713. Like many English...
Mary Clymer, an American operating-room nurse, died on Sep. 9, 1942 (some sources say Sep. 28). Clymer was born on Jan. 8, 1861, in Hamilton, New...
Peter Simon Pallas, a German naturalist who spent much of his career at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences at the direct invitation of Empress...
Isaac Sprague, an American painter of birds and plants, was born Sep. 5, 1811, in Hingham, Mass., on the south shore of Boston Harbor. We know...
Lewis Howard Latimer, a Black American inventor and patent consultant, was born Sep. 4, 1848, in Chelsea, Mass. His parents were both escaped...
Loren Eiseley, an American nature writer and anthropologist, was born Sep. 3, 1907, in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Lysander Button, an American inventor and manufacturer, was born in North Haven, Conn., on Sep. 2, 1810 (or perhaps Sep. 12). He moved to New York...
On Aug. 29, 1927, Carl Schwachheim, a blacksmith turned amateur archaeologist from Raton, New Mexico, found a projectile point nestled between the...
The very first issue of Scientific American magazine was published on Aug. 28, 1845, 180 years ago today. It was the brainchild and handiwork of...
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