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Tobacco seeds

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Ancient seeds reveal we began using tobacco at least 12,300 years ago

Tobacco seeds discovered in the remains of an ancient fire suggest people have been using the plant for much longer than we thought

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Close up of the Le Base du Colosse des Naxiens (

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Marble of ancient Greek statue traced to its likely origin

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Lake Caldeiro inside the collapsed caldera of Corvo Island

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People reached remote Atlantic islands 700 years earlier than thought

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cuneiform tablets

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Ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets could be decoded by an AI

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The Jubbah Oasis in northern Saudi Arabia, where humans were repeatedly present during periods of increased rainfall over hundreds of thousands of years

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Humans reached Arabia in at least five waves thanks to wetter climates

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Dog eating food

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Ancient dog faeces show how our canine friends became omnivores

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cuneiform tablet

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Babylonians calculated with triangles centuries before Pythagoras

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artist's reconstruction of wild dog

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Ancient humans in Europe may have stolen food from wild hunting dogs

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reconstruction of Roman road

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Ancient Roman road discovered at the bottom of the Venice lagoon

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food ingredients

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Last meal of a man mummified in a bog reconstructed after 2400 years

Tollund Man ate a simple meal of cooked cereals and fish before being hanged and dumped in a bog in Iron Age Europe

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3200-year-old shrine in Turkey may be an ancient view of the cosmos

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Ancient jawbone reveals a 2500-kilometre journey from Sudan to Rome

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Stepped platforms in Mesopotamia were the oldest known war memorial

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Earliest known war was a repeated conflict in Sudan 13,400 years ago

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