List of famous discoveries
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This is a list of famous discoveries.
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Anthropology
Archeology
- Sutton Hoo
- Troy
- Viking settlement in Vinland
- Cache of royal correspondence at Amarna
- Indus Valley Civilization
- Mycenae
- Hittite civilization
- The Rosetta Stone
- Terracotta army at the tomb of Qin Shi Huang
- Ur
- Minoan civilization
Astronomy/Cosmology
- The discovery of the curvature of the Earth
- Heliocentrism (Earth and the planets revolves around the Sun)
- Moons around Jupiter
- Universe beyond our galaxy
- Expansion of the universe
- Cosmic microwave background radiation
Biology
- Circulation of blood through the body is driven by the pumping of the heart
- Former existence of extinct species
- Mendel's laws of genetics
- Discovery of evidence for evolution.
- Discovery of the structure and function of DNA
Chemistry
Engineering
- TRIZ - Theory if Inventive Problems Solving
Geography/Geology
Physics
- Gravity
- Electromagnetism
- Diffraction provides evidence for the wave theory of light
- Radioactivity
- Electron
- Photon
- The Michaelson-Morley experiment demonstrates that light is not carried by Aether
- The demonstration of time dilation as a real physical phenomenon