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Ancient Romans may have used Chinese medicine to treat coeliac disease

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Ancient Romans may have used Chinese medicine to treat coeliac disease

A woman who died in Italy 2000 years ago may have had coeliac disease, and her dental plaque suggests she sought relief in ginseng and turmeric imported from China

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roast vegetables

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Earliest roasted root vegetables found in 170,000-year-old cave dirt

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H8NH0B Museum of Prehistoric Thera in Fira, Santorini.

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Ancient monkey painting suggests Bronze Age Greeks travelled widely

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Lost Ethiopian town comes from an ancient empire that rivalled Rome

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Reconstructing ancient technology: How our ancestors made tools

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The prehistoric pup

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Ancient puppy found in permafrost still has its fur and whiskers

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Fiskardo village

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Roman shipwreck full of 2000-year-old jugs found on Greek sea floor

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human skull

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We can now settle debates on when ancient people lived using their DNA

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Huge mysterious ape Gigantopithecus was a distant cousin of orangutans

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Huge mysterious ape Gigantopithecus was a distant cousin of orangutans

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Cave paintings in Andalusia, Spain, have been attributed to Neanderthals

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Neanderthals' cave art skills questioned in dispute over age of images

A dispute over the dating of prehistoric Spanish cave paintings is fuelling a fractious debate over Neanderthals’ artistic capabilities

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Ötzi the Iceman's last journey revealed by moss found in his stomach

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Some monkeys reuse their stone tools but others just chuck them away

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Archaeologists are racing to find a lost city before it's ransacked

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Ancient jungle capital of the Khmer Empire mapped for the first time

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