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archaeology

Stone Age ruling elite in Ireland may have had incestuous marriages

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Stone Age ruling elite in Ireland may have had incestuous marriages

DNA analysis of the 5000-year-old bones of a man buried in the Newgrange passage tomb in Ireland suggest the ruling elite at the time married within their family like some ancient Egyptian rulers

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An artist carved this tiny bird sculpture 13,000 years ago in China

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An artist carved this tiny bird sculpture 13,000 years ago in China

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Northern Line wall

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Forerunner to the Great Wall of China mapped in detail for first time

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Aguada Fenix

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We've just found the largest and oldest Mayan monument yet

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Ancient Egyptian dagger

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Ancient Egyptians saw the sky as crumbling iron tub filled with water

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Mysterious alignment: How do ancient monoliths still line up with the sun?

Last Word

Mysterious alignment: How do ancient monoliths still line up with the sun?

Regulars

A footprint on the moon

Space

I'm a space archaeologist studying junk strewn across the solar system

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archaeological dig

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An AI can tell whether ancient faeces came from a person or a dog

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Peru

Life

Monkeys made their way from Africa to South America at least twice

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Neanderthal string

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Oldest ever piece of string was made by Neanderthals 50,000 years ago

A piece of string found in a cave in France is the oldest ever discovered and shows that Neanderthals knew how to twist fibres together to make cords

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Farming and art arose in New Guinea at same time as Europe and Asia

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The stunning east Asian city that dates to the dawn of civilisation

Features

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‘Bonehenge’: Stone Age structure of mammoth bones discovered in Russia

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Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools

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