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Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived

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Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived

Astonishing new archaeological finds and ancient DNA analysis leave no doubt that throughout prehistory women were rulers, warriors, hunters and shamans

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Ancient pots found near Pompeii contain 2500-year-old honey

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Researchers in dugout canoe

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Researchers re-enact a 30,000 year old sea voyage

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Prehistoric Spanish people transported 2-tonne stone by boat

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An ancient Egyptian's complete genome has been read for the first time

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The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn’t conquer the world

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The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn’t conquer the world

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Ancient mammoth-tusk boomerang is twice as old as we thought

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Ancient people took wallabies to Indonesian islands in canoes

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Tutankhamon's solid gold death mask

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Tutankhamun was only a D-list pharaoh. So why was his tomb so opulent?

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Leprosy was in the Americas long before the arrival of Europeans

The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the disease was present in Argentina and Canada much earlier

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Before the Great Wall, Chinese rulers built a shallow ditch

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We’re about to unlock the secrets of ancient human brains

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Medieval woman was executed and displayed on London riverbank

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Ancient Maltese temples may have been schools for celestial navigation

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