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archaeology

image of beer cups and jars

Humans

Ancient Egyptian elites used a thick beer porridge in their ceremonies

Centuries before the pharaohs emerged in Egypt, the local elites used a thick porridge-like beer in their ceremonies

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Detail of a single adult footprint from the trail of fossilised hominin footprints

Humans

Fossil footprints hint at mystery hominin with unusual walking style

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flock of horses

Life

Stones smashed by horses can be mistaken for ancient human tools

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Dorsal and ventral views of the pendant. Scale bar is 1 cm. ? Antonino Vazzana - BONES Lab

Humans

Mammoth ivory pendant is oldest decorated jewellery found in Eurasia

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Upper central deciduous incisor

Life

Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do

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Woman carrying millet

Humans

Origins of Japanese and Turkish language family traced back 9000 years

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Roman statue

Humans

Ancient Roman statues discovered during HS2 high-speed railway dig

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L'Anse aux Meadows

Humans

We now know Vikings were in the Americas exactly 1000 years ago

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Tobacco seeds

Humans

Ancient seeds reveal we began using tobacco at least 12,300 years ago

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Close up of the Le Base du Colosse des Naxiens (

Earth

Marble of ancient Greek statue traced to its likely origin

The marble Colossus of the Naxians on the Greek island of Delos once stood about 9 metres tall, but is now in pieces in the British Museum and Greece

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Humans

People reached remote Atlantic islands 700 years earlier than thought

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Technology

Ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets could be decoded by an AI

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Humans

Humans reached Arabia in at least five waves thanks to wetter climates

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Humans

Ancient dog faeces show how our canine friends became omnivores

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