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

The ancient town of Hasanlu was under savage attack when a chance event meant every detail was frozen in time. Finally the story can be told, and the assailants unmasked

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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

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Ancient palace in Samarra

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

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The cemetary was built around 5000 years ago near Lake Turkana

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

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Stone Henge silhouetted in front of the setting sun

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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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Mass graves found on Scottish islands may be ancient tsunami victims

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Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming

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Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming

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Tregaron in Wales

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Record temperatures mean ancient forts become visible in fields

When the ground is baked by days of sun, markings that indicate the location of ancient settlements begin to emerge in the parched terrain

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The amazing assortment of stuff at the bottom of one Amsterdam canal

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Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty

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Ötzi the Iceman ran out of rock to make his tools before he died

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The first Americans had pet dogs 1000 years earlier than thought

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