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Press Handout picture: ANCIENT ANAESTHETIC REVEALS THE SOPHISTICATED MEDICINE OF MING CHINA ? Microscopic analysis uncovers traces of anaesthetic on surgical instruments from an early Ming dynasty tomb. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZMcIfEltnmkddbPrcQk66zqZijuvsQhC Photograph shows: The sampled instruments and the residues analysed on each one.

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Earliest use of anaesthetics uncovered in Chinese doctor’s tomb

Residues on medical equipment reveal that physicians in China over 600 years ago used aconitine, a highly toxic plant chemical, to alleviate pain during surgical procedures

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How a visit to Stonehenge reminded me of deep time

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How a visit to Stonehenge reminded me of deep time

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Mystery of the ancient giant stone jars of Laos may have been solved

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The story of the first human tool: the humble container

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Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence

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Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones

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A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

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A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

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2M3EH4G A recreation of various fighting dinosaurs. Detail of a diorama at the Gorodskoy Muzey, Museum, in Temirtau, Kazakhstan.

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Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought

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Historians dispute link between drought and rebellion in Roman Britain

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The Shroud of Turin bears DNA from many people, plants and animals

Researchers have identified genetic material from a vast range of organisms contaminating the shroud, said to have wrapped Jesus's body, further complicating the question of the cloth's true origin

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Oldest known dog extends the genetic history of our canine companions

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The ancient Goths were an ethnically diverse group

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Stone Age symbols may push back the earliest form of writing

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Brutal Iron Age massacre may have targeted women and children

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