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Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more

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Surprising skeletons prompt a radical rethink of Egyptian pyramids

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The Maquan River, the upper section of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, which flows through the Tibetan Plateau

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Ancient humans lived in an 'uninhabitable' climate 25,000 years ago

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Are we really doomed? An entertaining guide to humanity's extinction

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Ancient face bones offer clues to identity of early humans in Europe

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The biggest coincidence in human evolution

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A bone that appears to have been fashioned into a tool, dating back 1.5 million years

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Ancient humans used bone tools a million years earlier than we thought

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Humans were living in tropical forests surprisingly early

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Ancient hunters may have used throwing spears 300,000 years ago

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Why I'm deeply sceptical about comparisons between humans and machines

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Why I'm deeply sceptical about comparisons between humans and machines

Humans learn very differently to machines, thanks to our biased, malleable memory – and that's a good thing, says Charan Ranganath, director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California, Davis

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In millions of years, what could a future civilisation learn about us?

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The 7 most consequential moments in the history of everything

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Most Europeans may have had dark skin until less than 3000 years ago

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The story of ancient Mesopotamia and the dawn of the modern world

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