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Close up of the Le Base du Colosse des Naxiens (

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Marble of ancient Greek statue traced to its likely origin

The marble Colossus of the Naxians on the Greek island of Delos once stood about 9 metres tall, but is now in pieces in the British Museum and Greece

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Lake Caldeiro inside the collapsed caldera of Corvo Island

Humans

People reached remote Atlantic islands 700 years earlier than thought

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cuneiform tablets

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Ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets could be decoded by an AI

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The Jubbah Oasis in northern Saudi Arabia, where humans were repeatedly present during periods of increased rainfall over hundreds of thousands of years

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Humans reached Arabia in at least five waves thanks to wetter climates

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Dog eating food

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Ancient dog faeces show how our canine friends became omnivores

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cuneiform tablet

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Babylonians calculated with triangles centuries before Pythagoras

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artist's reconstruction of wild dog

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Ancient humans in Europe may have stolen food from wild hunting dogs

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reconstruction of Roman road

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Ancient Roman road discovered at the bottom of the Venice lagoon

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food ingredients

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Last meal of a man mummified in a bog reconstructed after 2400 years

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Hittite temple

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3200-year-old shrine in Turkey may be an ancient view of the cosmos

The Hittite religious site of Yazılıkaya has many carved images of deities, and a new interpretation suggests that they symbolise Hittite ideas about the universe

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Ancient jawbone reveals a 2500-kilometre journey from Sudan to Rome

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Stepped platforms in Mesopotamia were the oldest known war memorial

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Earliest known war was a repeated conflict in Sudan 13,400 years ago

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Alice Roberts: Archaeogenetics will help us solve mysteries of past

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