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Non-kosher fish eaten in Jerusalem during early days of Judaism

Non-kosher fish was on the menu in what is now Israel and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula while Judaism was developing in the region and the Hebrew Bible was being written there

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Isotope study hints ancient Greeks used foreign fighters in key battle

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Rubber slabs washed up in Brazil traced to second world war shipwreck

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Rubber slabs washed up in Brazil traced to second world war shipwreck

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Cerne Abbas Giant may have been carved into hill over 1000 years ago

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Mtoto oldest Africa burial

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78,000 year old human burial is oldest in Africa

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Remains of a 3-year-old child are the oldest known burial in Africa

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Remains of a 3-year-old child are the oldest known burial in Africa

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King Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose carried crew from North Africa

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Viking remains lost for more than a century rediscovered in a museum

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Viking remains lost for more than a century rediscovered in a museum

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Arabian cult may have built 1000 monuments older than Stonehenge

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Early Europeans shared a currency made from odd chunks of bronze

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Early Europeans shared a currency made from odd chunks of bronze

A single pan-European currency based on chunks of bronze was in use more than 2800 years ago, before the advent of coins or powerful nation states

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The alphabet may have been invented 500 years earlier than we thought

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Exploring 'Aquaterra', the drowned continent walked by our ancestors

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Bronze Age dogs ate little meat and had to feed on cereals instead

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Ancient Britons extracted salt from seawater more than 5500 years ago

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