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Blackbeard

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Blackbeard crashed his pirate ship on purpose because it leaked

Queen Anne’s Revenge, the flagship of the notorious pirate Blackbeard, ran aground in 1718 and was abandoned by its crew. A new analysis says this may have been done on purpose

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Stone Age ruling elite in Ireland may have had incestuous marriages

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Stone Age ruling elite in Ireland may have had incestuous marriages

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An artist carved this tiny bird sculpture 13,000 years ago in China

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An artist carved this tiny bird sculpture 13,000 years ago in China

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Northern Line wall

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Forerunner to the Great Wall of China mapped in detail for first time

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Aguada Fenix

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We've just found the largest and oldest Mayan monument yet

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Ancient Egyptian dagger

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Ancient Egyptians saw the sky as crumbling iron tub filled with water

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Mysterious alignment: How do ancient monoliths still line up with the sun?

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Mysterious alignment: How do ancient monoliths still line up with the sun?

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A footprint on the moon

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I'm a space archaeologist studying junk strewn across the solar system

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archaeological dig

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An AI can tell whether ancient faeces came from a person or a dog

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Peru

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Monkeys made their way from Africa to South America at least twice

Two lineages of ancient monkey migrated from Africa to South America more than 30 million years ago. But we’re not sure which ones got there first

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Oldest ever piece of string was made by Neanderthals 50,000 years ago

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Farming and art arose in New Guinea at same time as Europe and Asia

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The stunning east Asian city that dates to the dawn of civilisation

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‘Bonehenge’: Stone Age structure of mammoth bones discovered in Russia

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