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Barbegal mill

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A huge water-powered factory helped make food for Roman sailors

A site in France is home to the biggest ancient watermill complex ever found, and the flour it milled may have been used to make ship biscuits

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Doomed crew seeking Northwest Passage didn’t die from lead poisoning

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Doomed crew seeking Northwest Passage didn’t die from lead poisoning

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Ancient palace in Samarra

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The ancient palaces of Iraq glittered with a special type of glass

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The cemetary was built around 5000 years ago near Lake Turkana

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5000-year-old monument was built by a society without leaders

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Stone Henge silhouetted in front of the setting sun

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Mystery of Welsh bodies buried at Stonehenge as first stones arrived

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Mass graves found on Scottish islands may be ancient tsunami victims

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Mass graves found on Scottish islands may be ancient tsunami victims

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Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming

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Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming

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Tregaron in Wales

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Record temperatures mean ancient forts become visible in fields

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photographic film

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The amazing assortment of stuff at the bottom of one Amsterdam canal

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Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty

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Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty

The skeleton of an entirely new - but now extinct - species of gibbon was found in the tomb of Lady Xia, grandmother of China’s first emperor, and was probably her pet

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Ötzi the Iceman ran out of rock to make his tools before he died

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The first Americans had pet dogs 1000 years earlier than thought

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Mystery of why Stone Age villagers spent so much time underwater

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Have humans been sailors for a million years?

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