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Mass graves found on Scottish islands may be ancient tsunami victims

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Mass graves found on Scottish islands may be ancient tsunami victims

A rare tsunami may have struck the islands of Shetland and Orkney off the UK’s north coast 5500 years ago, killing dozens of people who had to be hastily buried

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Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming

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Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming

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Tregaron in Wales

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Record temperatures mean ancient forts become visible in fields

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photographic film

Life

The amazing assortment of stuff at the bottom of one Amsterdam canal

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Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty

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Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty

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Ötzi the Iceman ran out of rock to make his tools before he died

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Ötzi the Iceman ran out of rock to make his tools before he died

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The first Americans had pet dogs 1000 years earlier than thought

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The first Americans had pet dogs 1000 years earlier than thought

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a human skull being excavated

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Mystery of why Stone Age villagers spent so much time underwater

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boat artwork

Humans

Have humans been sailors for a million years?

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World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran

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World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran

About 3 billion people speak Indo-European languages like English and Hindustani, and it seems the first such tongue was spoken south of the Caucasus mountains

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Harsh: Europe's cannabis died just as the first farmers arrived

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Stem cells may reveal how Neanderthal DNA works in modern humans

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There is no secret burial chamber in Tutankhamun’s tomb

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Ancient humans in Philippines may have given rise to ‘hobbits’

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