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Skeleton with brutal injuries identified as duke assassinated in 1272

The identity of a skeleton buried under a Budapest convent has been confirmed as Béla of Macsó, a Hungarian royal murdered in a 13th-century power struggle, and archaeologists have pieced together how the attack unfolded

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Ancient DNA may rewrite the story of Iceland's earliest settlers

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Does the family tree of ancient humans need a drastic rewrite?

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Does the family tree of ancient humans need a drastic rewrite?

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Boy's body was mummified and turned green by a copper coffin

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How a surge in ancient plagues 5000 years ago shaped humanity

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How a surge in ancient plagues 5000 years ago shaped humanity

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Who were the first humans to reach the British Isles?

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An illustration of a scroll being unfurled by two hands, surrounded by Roman columns and wisps of smoke, with a Roman figure in a toga at the centre

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We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library

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'Pregnancy test' for skeletons could help reveal ancient mothers

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Ancient artists created giant camel engravings in the Arabian desert

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30,000-year-old toolkit shows what ancient hunter carried in a pouch

A set of 29 stone tools, including blades and points for hunting, butchering and cutting wood, were found neatly arranged as if carried in a leather pouch that decayed

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The oldest human mummies were slowly smoked 14,000 years ago

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Britain's economy thrived after the withdrawal of the Roman Empire

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Treasures from sunken Egyptian city of Canopus emerge from the sea

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An incredible Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution

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