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Dali skull

Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

14 November 2017

The 260,000-year-old Dali skull was found in China, but it looks a lot like the earliest known members of our species – which were found in Africa

Enigma machine

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

26 October 2017

A wide-ranging exhibition in Cambridge, UK, celebrates two geniuses: one broke Nazi codes, the other cracked an ancient script

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