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Saudi Arabia’s efforts to spotlight its ancient heritage received a boost on Thursday, after the publication of a detailed study on mysterious 7,000 year old structures which can be found in the Al Ula region.
The rectangular structures are built from basalt stone and are more than 2,000 years older than Egypt’s pyramids. Some of them are almost 500 metres in length.
News of the discovery was published in the Antiquity Journal.
Al Ula governorate lies on the old “Incense Road” trade route, which flourished in the seventh century, but human settlements there date back far earlier.
Al Ula includes the remains of a 2,000-year-old walled city built by early Bedouin settlers, the kingdom’s first Unesco World Heritage Site.
Banned Drinkers Register trial begins in Broome and Derby
Technology provides real-time tool for staff to identify banned drinkers
Initiative part of McGowan Government’s efforts to tackle alcohol-related harm
The State Government’s trial of a Banned Drinkers Register (BDR) will commence in the Kimberley this week, following a successful rollout in the Pilbara.
The initiative aims to reduce antisocial behaviour in Broome and Derby by restricting banned drinkers’ access to takeaway alcohol.
The two-year trial will investigate whether the measure can add to the McGowan Government’s wider efforts to tackle alcohol-related harm in Western Australia.
The BDR technology is supplied by Western Australian company Scantek. It allows businesses to scan customers’ identification, giving them a real-time tool to identify those who cannot legally be sold alcohol.
Recell Spray-On Skin
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The design that I have chosen for my Design & Technology task is ReCell, spray-on skin. I have chosen this design because I believe that it is one of the most innovative inventions to come from Australia.
ReCell is a patented skin culturing treatment for burns victims, developed by Dr Fiona Wood and scientist Marie Stoner. The procedure focuses on accelerating the treatment of burns on patients to only 5 days of a recovering process. Woodâs treatment is currently undergoing development but is registered under the TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration) in Australia. I believe that Recell spray-on skin is ethical because it greatly reduces the time of healing after burn treatments and if the wound is responded to quickly, the healed wounds can have little to no scarring. ReCell is also environmentally friendly due to the fact that it promotes the idea of recycling through regenerating skin cells grown in a laboratory to then spray onto the
The structures are believed to be among the earliest stone monuments constructed by humans in the world.
Based on findings published by Cambridge University Press on April 30, experts revealed that the neolithic rectilinear structures could date back more than 7,000 years.
A team of archaeologists from the University of Western Australia led by Dr. Hugh Thomas has conducted aerial archaeology surveys and targeted excavations across the northwestern region of Saudi Arabia, predominantly focusing on the AlUla and Khaybar provinces.
Research was completed as part of a program by the Royal Commission of AlUla’s (RCU) Aerial Archeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia AlUla project (AAKSAU).