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Daniel Antoine: The hidden secrets of Egyptian mummies

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Daniel Antoine: The hidden secrets of Egyptian mummies

Daniel Antoine explains how the British Museum used state-of-the-art imaging to discover that one of their mummies had been brutally murdered

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David Reich: The truth about us, and where we come from

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David Reich: The truth about us, and where we come from

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Tree rings reveal plague hit medieval Europe’s construction industry

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Tree rings reveal plague hit medieval Europe’s construction industry

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Human skull

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Every man in Spain was wiped out 4500 years ago by hostile invaders

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khipus

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We thought the Incas couldn't write. These knots change everything

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baobab trees

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We may have reached Madagascar 6000 years earlier than once thought

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skeletons

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Iran's Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia

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Drawing on rock

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World’s first drawing is a red crayon doodle made 73,000 years ago

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Barbegal mill

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A huge water-powered factory helped make food for Roman sailors

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Doomed crew seeking Northwest Passage didn’t die from lead poisoning

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Doomed crew seeking Northwest Passage didn’t die from lead poisoning

The Franklin expedition disappeared in 1845. One theory suggests lead in the crew’s diet impaired their judgement – but a new analysis suggests otherwise

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The ancient palaces of Iraq glittered with a special type of glass

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5000-year-old monument was built by a society without leaders

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Mystery of Welsh bodies buried at Stonehenge as first stones arrived

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Mass graves found on Scottish islands may be ancient tsunami victims

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