From the 3,000 years back in the old Mesopotamia, brickmakers printed new labels of their kings for the clay bricks. Today, an analysis of material grain in those bricks has confirmed a mystical anomaly within the World’s magnetized community.

A brick dating for the leadership off Nebuchadnezzar II (circa 604 to 562 B.C.), depending on the inscription. It stone, that has been looted which is today located on the Slemani Museum when you look at the Iraq, while others assisted researchers prove an old magnetized career anomaly. (Picture borrowing: Slemani Museum)

Old bricks away from Mesopotamia provides helped show albanian sexy women a mysterious anomaly from inside the World’s magnetized field you to happened step 3,000 years back, new research finds out.

Brickmakers baked the bricks, which were imprinted with the names of Mesopotamian kings, between the third and first millennia B.C. Iron oxide grains within the clay recorded changes in Earth’s magnetic field when the bricks were heated, enabling scientists to reconstruct changes in the magnetic field over time, the team reported in a study published in the journal PNAS on Monday (Dec. 18).

“We often depend on dating methods such as radiocarbon schedules to get a sense of chronology in ancient Mesopotamia,” study co-author Mark Altaweel, a professor of Near East archaeology and archaeological data science at University College London, said in a report. “However, some of the most common cultural remains, such as bricks and ceramics, cannot typically be easily dated because they don’t contain organic material. This work now helps create an important dating baseline.”

To investigate Earth’s magnetic field – which waxes, wanes and even flips over time – the researchers looked at grains of the mineral iron oxide in 32 clay bricks from ancient Mesopotamia, located largely in what is now Iraq. (more…)