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Remains of a 3-year-old child are the oldest known burial in Africa

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Remains of a 3-year-old child are the oldest known burial in Africa

The oldest known burial in Africa is of a 3-year-old child who died around 78,000 years ago, shedding light on how people in the region cared for their dead at that time

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mary rose

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King Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose carried crew from North Africa

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Viking remains lost for more than a century rediscovered in a museum

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Viking remains lost for more than a century rediscovered in a museum

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ancient monument

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Arabian cult may have built 1000 monuments older than Stonehenge

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Early Europeans shared a currency made from odd chunks of bronze

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Early Europeans shared a currency made from odd chunks of bronze

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The alphabet may have been invented 500 years earlier than we thought

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The alphabet may have been invented 500 years earlier than we thought

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Exploring 'Aquaterra', the drowned continent walked by our ancestors

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Exploring 'Aquaterra', the drowned continent walked by our ancestors

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dog with a carrot

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Bronze Age dogs ate little meat and had to feed on cereals instead

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pottery

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Ancient Britons extracted salt from seawater more than 5500 years ago

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People living in the Atacama desert once traded exotic parrots

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People living in the Atacama desert once traded exotic parrots

The remains of birds from between AD 1100 and 1450 suggest that people once transported parrots and macaws to trade them at an oasis in Chile’s Atacama desert

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Bronze Age miners had cooked meals delivered to their workplace

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The World Before Us review: A gripping account of Earth's other humans

Culture

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Mass graves in France belonged to opposing soldiers in medieval war

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Indian stone tool may be earliest evidence of humans outside Africa

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