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DNA analysis reveals what really killed Napoleon's army in 1812

At least 300,000 men died during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia - now the latest genetic techniques have identified two pathogens that may have contributed to some of the deaths

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Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived

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Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived

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Ancient pots found near Pompeii contain 2500-year-old honey

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Researchers in dugout canoe

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Researchers re-enact a 30,000 year old sea voyage

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Prehistoric Spanish people transported 2-tonne stone by boat

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An ancient Egyptian's complete genome has been read for the first time

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The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn’t conquer the world

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The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn’t conquer the world

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Ancient mammoth-tusk boomerang is twice as old as we thought

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Ancient people took wallabies to Indonesian islands in canoes

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Tutankhamon's solid gold death mask

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Tutankhamun was only a D-list pharaoh. So why was his tomb so opulent?

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is revealing the surprising reasons why he was given such a lavish send-off

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Leprosy was in the Americas long before the arrival of Europeans

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Before the Great Wall, Chinese rulers built a shallow ditch

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We’re about to unlock the secrets of ancient human brains

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Medieval woman was executed and displayed on London riverbank

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