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A cave showing ancient rock art

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We can finally hear the long-hidden music of the Stone Age

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric rituals to life

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Neanderthals' hefty noses weren’t well adapted to cold climates

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Cradle of humanity is still revealing new insights about our origins

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Does the family tree of ancient humans need a drastic rewrite?

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Does the family tree of ancient humans need a drastic rewrite?

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Denisovans may have interbred with mysterious group of ancient humans

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Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch

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Ancient lead exposure may have influenced how our brains evolved

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Early hominin had human-like dexterity and gorilla strength

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Who were the first humans to reach the British Isles?

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An illustration of a scroll being unfurled by two hands, surrounded by Roman columns and wisps of smoke, with a Roman figure in a toga at the centre

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We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius. Nearly 2000 years later, we can at last read these lost treasures

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A compelling book about the end of the Neanderthals is a rare treat

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Does this sculpted head show an ancient hunter-gatherer's hairstyle?

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Understanding the Denisovans means understanding ourselves

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An incredible Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution

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