الأستاذ كاشف الأعمار .. الذّرَّة تحصي على المخلوقات أعمارها .. في سبيل موسوعة علمية

Professor, the detector of ages.. The atom counts the ages of creatures

Mr. Kashif Al Omar

The professor who discovered the ages of antiquities, using radioactive carbon, is Professor Libby at the University of Chicago. He did what he did after World War II and for it he won the Nobel Prize in 1960.

He began to determine the ages of objects made from human remains
There are sayings in history, the age of which is known. After that, he began to achieve things whose ages are not known to be verified.

The great and trustworthy archaeologists, anthropologists, and scholars of earth history and stratigraphy said: “Come on, give us samples of what you have.” Ancient things left over from time immemorial, which have a known history to you, even if only approximately. Let me burn them in my laboratory, extract their charcoal, and count the radiation in them. I can estimate how much of its radiation has disappeared, and how many years it has taken for it to disappear. So, count the years of these things, from the year they were alive to the present day. Combine these ages with the ages you found, and then we will see what will happen.

Archaeologists and anthropologists and earth scientists knew what this would mean for their own sciences if what Professor Libby aimed at were true.

It was not long before samples came to him one by one from every direction: a piece of wood from a boat that belonged to some ancient people, or it was from a coffin of one of the pharaohs, or it was a charcoal of charred wood, the remains of ancient stoves belonging to a group of people who lived before written history. Or a piece of flesh from a human or human-like corpse, preserved by time. Or perhaps it is from the bone of an ancient human, or it is the dung of an animal. Or it is a grain of wheat. Or it emerged from a flower that had been buried for a long time at the bottom of a lake. The samples were many and varied. Collecting them all dates back to ancient times.

The professor and his assistants worked day and night, driven by intense scientific curiosity to reveal confirming results
The ages that archaeologists previously knew about these things, whether they knew their ages, or they deny them.

Scientists around the world began to wait. And they took
They listen.

- A boat of one of the Pharaohs:

It was one of the first things that Professor Libby appreciated
Its ages, in this atomic way, are the boat of one of the pharaohs of Egypt. He is Sistris III, King of Egypt. It is a wooden boat that was used in the funeral of this king when they carried his body across the water to the afterlife.

For the experiment in the laboratory, they cut out a piece of the wood of this boat. It is preserved in the Natural History Museum in Chicago, United States. The professor took out the carbon and counted his heartbeats.

It came out that the wood for this boat was cut from its tree
About 3621 years ago.
Archaeologists estimate that this king lived about 3,800 years ago.
Professor Libby estimated, while Omar estimated a piece of
Cypress wood, cut from the tomb of another Egyptian pharaoh, Sneferu, the age of a piece of pine wood taken from the floor of an ancient Syrian-Hittite palace, and the age of a piece of a shroud from the Ptolemaic era in Egypt.
The results were all satisfactory.

- The fake coffin:

Professor Libby laughed a lot when they brought him a piece of wood from the lid of an ancient Egyptian coffin preserved in a famous museum, and he was told that it was 2,300 years old. The professor appreciated

(A sandal uncovered by prospectors in the United States in the state of Arjun, and dated by corn, fell from history in the Stone Age. This indicates that man, in America, in that era, was guided to
The method of weaving even before settling on cultivation in the land. The sandal is made from the bark of a well-known American tree.

Its age is in atoms, and the electronic meter only records what corresponds to less than a hundred years. He repeated the experiment, and the result was the same.

It's a cover for a fake coffin. Those who faked it made it from modern wood, and were so skillful in presenting it with an ancient appearance that the antiquities experts were fooled. They examined it again, and then they found evidence of falsehood.

(This ship, 32 feet long, was discovered by excavators in the sand next to the pyramid of the Pharaoh of Egypt, Sis Steris, in Dahshur. It is estimated that it carried the remains of the Pharaoh across the water around the year 850 BC. A piece of wood that was cut from this ship was radioactively carbon dated, and the radioactive estimate differed from that of men. The antiquities are only about 180 years old, and the ship is located in the Natural History Museum in Chicago.