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From the cosmos to Piccadilly Circus, the James Webb Space Telescope is making science fun again.

On July 12, 2022, Webb’s First Images were displayed in Piccadilly Circus in London, on Piccadilly Lights. Images/Video posted with permission. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (Credit: Piccadilly Lights)

Those fatigued by a constant diet of apocalyptic political news predictions and talking-heads apoplectic over some new outrage or another can find solace elsewhere in the universe of news.

Science news rarely disappoints.

Ancient artifacts have been revealed over the summer due to prolonged droughts in some areas. Though many spectacular archeological finds have been discovered over the centuries since Herodotus wrote his histories, plenty of fantastic historical finds remain hidden.

The ancient crowns of early dynastic Egyptian rulers have never been found. The highly-advanced civilization of the Ancient Egyptians lasted for thousands of years. It lasted so long in fact, we are closer in time today to one the last and perhaps best known rulers of Ancient Egypt, Cleopatra- who was a member of the Ptolemy family and Greek- than Cleopatra was to the builder of the Great Pyramids of Giza.

There are a great many crowns depicted in Ancient Egyptian art. Physical specimens, however, have never been found.

Nor has the tomb of Alexander the Great. The conquerer’s burial place remains one of the most sought after lost treasures of history as yet to be discovered.