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Archaeology

Ancient Egyptian dagger

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

A fresh look at the world鈥檚 oldest religious texts suggests ancient Egyptians saw the sky as a water-filled iron container from which chunks fell to Earth as meteorites

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A footprint on the moon

Space

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

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archaeological dig

Humans

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

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Peru

Life

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

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Neanderthal string

Humans

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

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Artefacts

Humans

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

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Humans

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

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鈥楤onehenge鈥�: Stone Age structure of mammoth bones discovered in Russia

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Humans

Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools

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Humans

Thousands of Denisovan tools reveal their Stone Age technologies

A cache of Denisovan tools shows how these extinct humans moved from using sharp stone flakes 150,000 years ago to stone blades and chisels around 60,000 years ago

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Humans

Ancient people tried to stop rising seas with spears or fiery boulders

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Humans

Who invented the alphabet? The untold story of a linguistic revolution

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Hieroglyphics

Humans

Stone Age replica raft almost ready to repeat epic prehistoric voyage

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