Science & anomalies
Rivers from another age.
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Claim or proposition being examined
Ancient landscapes beneath the ice—and the difference between age and archaeology.
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Map of East Antarctic bed elevation and four measured radar profiles from Paxman and colleagues’ 2025 study. This is mapped and radar-derived geology beneath the ice, not an excavation or image of ancient buildings.
Paxman et al., Nature Geoscience 18, 724–731 (2025), doi:10.1038/s 41561-025-01734-z, figure 1. CC BY 4.0. Full figure retained; proportional resize if needed.
Data visualization, not direct optical photography below the ice. Preserve panel letters, axes, legends and study link. Figure 1 uses BedMachine v3 and survey radargrams; figure 3 includes modeled thermal state. Do not imply human settlement.
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CC BY 4.0 article; figures included unless separately credited. No exclusion found for these figures. Publisher HTML downloaded and license verified.
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- role not specifiedhttps://www.bas.ac.uk/news/ancient-river-landscapes-discovered-beneath-east-antarctica/
- image reproduction provenance; not proof of a linked interpretationhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01734-z
- image reuse conditionshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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