Science news articles about 'engraving'

A 17th-showing engraving showing what was long thought to be early contact between Europeans and original inhabitants of New England actually depicts a scene in Newfoundland, an archeologist says.

... world. "It is generally assumed that the master artists – such as the one who engraved the image of Alexander on this particular gemstone – were mainly ... at Georgetown University in Washington DC, identified the engraved motif as a bust of Alexander the Great. This has been confirmed ...

A gemstone engraved with the portrait of Alexander the Great was uncovered during excavations by an archaeological team in Israel.

Torchlight and flickering shadows would have made the engravings on stone walls seem to come alive at night, treating an Alpine tribe to a primitive cinematic experience.

... . The find is important not only for solving the puzzle of the missing engraving, but also because it illustrates Audubon's development as an artist ... as being by Audubon, until now. The full account of the engraving and its place in Audubon's celebrated works will appear ...

A faint engraving of a reindeer in a South Wales cave looks to be among the oldest rock art known in Britain.

JERUSALEM, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- An ancient Roman sword and scabbard, and an engraving of a menorah on stone were found during work on a 2,000-year-old drainage tunnel in Jerusalem.

A colorful pebble bearing a sequence of linear incisions may be the world's oldest engraving.

... or another internal surface. The method is similar to that used to engrave codes on computer chips. When the trigger is pulled ... could not determine if these remained legible enough to be useful. Codes engraved on the face of the firing pin could easily be removed ...

... by this activity-induced LTP. One can describe this process as an "engraving of memory traces" in the neuronal networks that store ...

... similar disparities, with some aspects of an experience seemingly engraved in memory while other details are erased. "Sleep ...

... when job stress surfaces. The bronze medals, engraved with "One for All" and "Strengthening the Chain," reinforce the tenets of the training ...

... .C. and the early 1st century A.D., that is engraved with what they believe could be the world's first known ...

... , molded into a soft rubber. Borrowing from an artistic engraving technique used for printmaking, the researchers use that array of cells ...

... Arabic traveler who engraved his name on a block of red sandstone over 1,300 years ...