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Complete terracotta prismoid, in octagonal form, eight columns of inscription, historical inscription of Tiglathpileser I, describing his campaigns and buildings. ? The Trustees of the British Museum

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Gripping story reveals race to crack world's oldest script, cuneiform

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, in Joshua Hammer's The Mesopotamian Riddle

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Relics in Tutankhamun’s tomb hint he invented elaborate burial rites

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10. Regalia presented to Ashurbanipal

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Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life

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Ancient ancestor of the plague discovered in Bronze Age sheep

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A man's brain was turned into glass by the eruption of Vesuvius

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When did people start building houses with corners?

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Pompeii’s streets show how the city adapted to Roman rule

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Enigmatic people who took over Europe millennia ago came from Ukraine

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Volcano-scorched Roman scroll is read for the first time in 2000 years

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Ancient society may have carved 'sun stones' to end volcanic winter

Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it because a volcanic eruption covered the sky

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Celtic tribe's DNA points to female empowerment in pre-Roman Britain

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Intricate ancient tattoos revealed by shining lasers on mummies

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Ancient humans understood the future and the past pretty much as we do

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People ate lots of foxes and wildcats 10,000 years ago

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