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Extinct ‘Denisovan’ people may have lived on Earth’s highest plateau
The Tibetan Plateau is a tough environment so we thought humans arrived only about 12,000 years ago, but it seems someone was there 40,000 to 30,000 years ago
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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa
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Unearthed! The missing Native American city on the Great Plains
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Daniel Antoine: The hidden secrets of Egyptian mummies
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David Reich: The truth about us, and where we come from
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Tree rings reveal plague hit medieval Europe’s construction industry
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Every man in Spain was wiped out 4500 years ago by hostile invaders
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We thought the Incas couldn’t write. These knots change everything
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We may have reached Madagascar 6000 years earlier than once thought
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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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World’s first drawing is a red crayon doodle made 73,000 years ago
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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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The ancient palaces of Iraq glittered with a special type of glass
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