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Easter Island

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Unearthed: Why we've got monuments like Stonehenge all wrong

From Stone Age circles to Easter Island’s statues, majestic prehistoric monuments may be far less to do with gods, kings or the heavens than we thought

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Baby skeleton from Alaska reveals origins of Native Americans

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Baby skeleton from Alaska reveals origins of Native Americans

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Hoax or not? Three ancient texts with controversial origins

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Hoax or not? Three ancient texts with controversial origins

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Venice may be almost 200 years older than anyone thought

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Venice may be almost 200 years older than anyone thought

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A stone from Bronze Age central Turkey showing Luwian hieroglyphs (top left)

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How World War Zero wrecked three Bronze Age civilisations

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cargo from a wreck

A shipwreck has been found from the time of Alexander the Great

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Dali skull

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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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Cosmic rays have revealed a new chamber in Egypt’s Great Pyramid

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Cosmic rays have revealed a new chamber in Egypt’s Great Pyramid

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Enigma machine

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Cracking it: Enigma’s Alan Turing and Linear B’s Michael Ventris

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ruined city

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The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks

Settled agriculture didn't spawn the first states. Two new books help expose the real drivers, the pressures on marginalised people – and what they can teach us

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Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

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Controversial footprints suggest we evolved in Europe not Africa

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Medieval London was the most violent place in England

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Health

Mummy autopsy reveals earliest known case of liver parasite

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