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The most amazing archaeology photos and discoveries of 2025

The first Denisovan skull, an ancient hunter’s toolkit and a Roman man’s brain that has turned to glass: here are our picks of the year’s most striking findings about prehistoric humans

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Oldest evidence of fire-lighting comes from early humans in Britain

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Did ancient humans start farming so they could drink more beer?

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Did ancient humans start farming so they could drink more beer?

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2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

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TX DATE:21-07-2025,TX WEEK:29,EMBARGOED UNTIL:08-07-2025 00:00:00,DESCRIPTION:Dramatic reconstruction of early anatomically modern Homo sapiens living in Africa.,COPYRIGHT:BBC Studios,CREDIT LINE:BBC / BBC Studios

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The four best science documentaries of 2025

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Cave passages in Murubbeh Cave

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Ancient human artefacts found near caves in Arabian desert

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A map showing northern and southern routes that ancient humans probably took to reach what is now Australia

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Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000 years ago

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The bones arranged in the approximate anatomical position of the right foot

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Ancient human foot bones shed light on how two species coexisted

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Kissing may have evolved in an ape ancestor 21 million years ago

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New Denisovan discovery could rewrite our family tree

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New Denisovan discovery could rewrite our family tree

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives

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

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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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