The ancient palaces of Iraq glittered with a special type of glass
22 August 2018
The ancient city of Samarra was famed for its palaces. Now we know they were made with unique glass found nowhere else
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Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty
21 June 2018
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
The first Americans had pet dogs 1000 years earlier than thought
18 June 2018
There were domestic dogs in North America 10,200 years ago, according to a re-examination of an ancient dog skeleton that looks like a small English setter
Ancient finger bone may reveal humanity's path out of Africa
9 April 2018
A single bone found in the Saudi Arabian desert is at least 85,000 years old, and may shed light on the route early humans took out of Africa
Baby skeleton from Alaska reveals origins of Native Americans
3 January 2018
DNA from an infant girl who died 11,500 years ago reveals where America’s first human settlers came from and when they arrived
Secret lifestyle of the dodo revealed for the first time
24 August 2017
A study of dodo bones has revealed how the legendary birds matured, bred and moulted, and explains discrepancies in sailors’ descriptions of them
