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Rows of the ancient stones

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Mysterious stone spheres could be from an ancient Aegean board game

Stone spheres found at ancient settlements across the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas could have been playing pieces for a board game involving stone slabs

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Bronze pot

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Secrets of an ancient Chinese recipe for bronze finally deciphered

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DEWD0X Archaeological Site of Atapuerca. Archaeological Site: Gran Dolina. World Heritage Site. Burgos. Castilla-Leon. Spain.

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Life As Told By a Sapiens to a Neanderthal review: Joyful curiosity

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Donny Dust about to test an atlatl

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Prehistoric dart-throwing atlatl weapon even more deadly than thought

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'Dogor', an 18,000 year-old wolf puppy from Yakutia which was included in the study

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Dogs are descended from two populations of ancient wolves

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MF0B5A Pharaoh driving a chariot in battle, ancient Egypt. Hand-colored engraving of a bas-relief

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Was warfare responsible for the origin of complex civilisation?

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A selection of flint artefacts excavated at the site

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UK’s earliest hand axes were made by ancient humans 560,000 years ago

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AI finds hidden evidence of ancient human fires 1 million years ago

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LAMBOURN, UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 17: Free-range chickens of breed Isa 257 roam freely at Sheepdrove Organic Farm, Lambourn, England. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)

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We may now know when chickens were domesticated – but not why

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ERCOLANO, ITALY - APRIL 22: General view of the Archaeological Park of Herculaneum on April 22, 2022 in Pompei, Italy. Visits to the underground path of the Ancient Theater of the Archaeological Park of Herculaneum start again, after a period of closure imposed by the limitations due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Ancient Theater, destination of the grand tour, was buried by the eruption of 79 AD. it was the first monument to be discovered in the Vesuvian sites during the eighteenth century. In 1738, King Charles III of Bourbon began an intense excavation that marked the beginning of modern Western archeology. (Photo by Ivan Romano/Getty Images)

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Proteins in human bones near Pompeii survived temperatures of 500°C

Many ancient Romans died when the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by hot volcanic ash, but the high temperatures didn’t destroy proteins in their skeletons

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An ancient Roman who died in Pompeii has had their genome sequenced

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Ice Age Footprints review: Ancient humans’ arrival in North America

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A small Irish community survived a millennium of plagues and famines

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Stone Age Europeans may have gathered to watch animations by the fire

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