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Immersive Tutankhamun exhibition reveals the grandeur of his treasures

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Immersive Tutankhamun exhibition reveals the grandeur of his treasures

Beyond King Tut, curated by the National Geographic Society, surrounds visitors with large-scale projections and animations of some of the thousands of artefacts unearthed from the boy king's tomb

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Terracotta army

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Six archaeological discoveries to rival Tutankhamun's tomb

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How technology is revolutionising our understanding of ancient Egypt

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How technology is revolutionising our understanding of ancient Egypt

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A sign at the Porvenir massacre site

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US Army bullets unexpectedly found at 1918 Mexico border massacre site

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Chagyrskaya Cave in Siberia

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Neanderthal family life revealed by ancient DNA from Siberian cave

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Rows of the ancient stones

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Mysterious stone spheres could be from an ancient Aegean board game

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Bronze pot

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Secrets of an ancient Chinese recipe for bronze finally deciphered

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DEWD0X Archaeological Site of Atapuerca. Archaeological Site: Gran Dolina. World Heritage Site. Burgos. Castilla-Leon. Spain.

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Life As Told By a Sapiens to a Neanderthal review: Joyful curiosity

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Donny Dust about to test an atlatl

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Prehistoric dart-throwing atlatl weapon even more deadly than thought

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'Dogor', an 18,000 year-old wolf puppy from Yakutia which was included in the study

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Dogs are descended from two populations of ancient wolves

Modern dogs have ancestry from wolves in Asia and Europe, according to a study analysing DNA from 72 ancient wolves going back 100,000 years

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Was warfare responsible for the origin of complex civilisation?

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UK’s earliest hand axes were made by ancient humans 560,000 years ago

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AI finds hidden evidence of ancient human fires 1 million years ago

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We may now know when chickens were domesticated – but not why

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