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Ancient Hominins Of Sri Lanka: Who Was The Balangoda Man?The entrance to Batadombalena cave in Sri Lanka.

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Ancient Hominins Of Sri Lanka: Who Was The Balangoda Man?The entrance to Batadombalena cave in Sri Lanka.
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Ancient Hominins Of Sri Lanka: Who Was The Balangoda Man?

clock-iconSeptember 6, 2022
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People In Scotland Have Been Eating Bowls Of Cereal With Milk For 5,500 YearsPart of a pottery sherd with patterns etched into the side

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People In Scotland Have Been Eating Bowls Of Cereal With Milk For 5,500 YearsPart of a pottery sherd with patterns etched into the side
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People In Scotland Have Been Eating Bowls Of Cereal With Milk For 5,500 Years

clock-iconSeptember 6, 2022
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Ancient Viking Poop Shows How Gut Worms Are Humankind's Closest CompanionImage of a whipworm (Trichuris trichiura) parasitic worm under a microscope.

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Ancient Viking Poop Shows How Gut Worms Are Humankind's Closest CompanionImage of a whipworm (Trichuris trichiura) parasitic worm under a microscope.
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Ancient Viking Poop Shows How Gut Worms Are Humankind's Closest Companion

clock-iconSeptember 6, 2022
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Nile Riverbed Clues Help Explain The Mystery Of Egypt's Pyramid ConstructionAn artist's illustration shows how a now-defunct arm of the River Nile known as the Khufu branch expected to the pyramids.

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Nile Riverbed Clues Help Explain The Mystery Of Egypt's Pyramid ConstructionAn artist's illustration shows how a now-defunct arm of the River Nile known as the Khufu branch expected to the pyramids.
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Nile Riverbed Clues Help Explain The Mystery Of Egypt's Pyramid Construction

clock-iconAugust 29, 2022
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Oldest Case Of Rare Genetic Condition That Sees Males With Extra X Chromosome DiscoveredAncient skeleton Klinefelter syndrome

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Oldest Case Of Rare Genetic Condition That Sees Males With Extra X Chromosome DiscoveredAncient skeleton Klinefelter syndrome
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Oldest Case Of Rare Genetic Condition That Sees Males With Extra X Chromosome Discovered

clock-iconAugust 29, 2022
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Sequencing 777 Ancient Human Genomes Reveals History Of “Cradle Of Western Civilization”Skull forceps on a table with scientists with blue gloves holding petri dish Eppendorf tubes

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Sequencing 777 Ancient Human Genomes Reveals History Of “Cradle Of Western Civilization”Skull forceps on a table with scientists with blue gloves holding petri dish Eppendorf tubes
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Sequencing 777 Ancient Human Genomes Reveals History Of “Cradle Of Western Civilization”

clock-iconAugust 26, 2022
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Young Woman Buried In Canoe Is Oldest (And Strangest) Boat Burial In ArgentinaIllustration showing how pre-Hispanic cultures fashioned boats out of a single tree trunk, ahead of the wampo boat burial ritual.

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Young Woman Buried In Canoe Is Oldest (And Strangest) Boat Burial In ArgentinaIllustration showing how pre-Hispanic cultures fashioned boats out of a single tree trunk, ahead of the wampo boat burial ritual.
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Young Woman Buried In Canoe Is Oldest (And Strangest) Boat Burial In Argentina

clock-iconAugust 25, 2022
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Fossil Skulls May Reveal When And Where Neanderthals And Modern Humans MatedNeanderthal facial features in ancient human skulls could identify where interbreeding primarily occurred

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Fossil Skulls May Reveal When And Where Neanderthals And Modern Humans MatedNeanderthal facial features in ancient human skulls could identify where interbreeding primarily occurred
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Fossil Skulls May Reveal When And Where Neanderthals And Modern Humans Mated

clock-iconAugust 24, 2022
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Controversial Bones Show When Early Humans First Started Walking On Two FeetIllustration of Sahelanthropus, an early human ancestor that was bipedal and climbed trees

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Controversial Bones Show When Early Humans First Started Walking On Two FeetIllustration of Sahelanthropus, an early human ancestor that was bipedal and climbed trees
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Controversial Bones Show When Early Humans First Started Walking On Two Feet

clock-iconAugust 24, 2022
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11,000-Year-Old Ceremonial Mounds Are Oldest Known Human-Made Structures In North AmericaLSU Campus Mounds

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11,000-Year-Old Ceremonial Mounds Are Oldest Known Human-Made Structures In North AmericaLSU Campus Mounds
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11,000-Year-Old Ceremonial Mounds Are Oldest Known Human-Made Structures In North America

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Archaeological Discovery Claims To Mark Biblical Saint Peter's BirthplaceThis inscription ties the church built there to the Church of the Apostles dedicated to St Peter adding to the evidence the site is Bethsaida, the birthplace of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew

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Archaeological Discovery Claims To Mark Biblical Saint Peter's BirthplaceThis inscription ties the church built there to the Church of the Apostles dedicated to St Peter adding to the evidence the site is Bethsaida, the birthplace of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew
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Archaeological Discovery Claims To Mark Biblical Saint Peter's Birthplace

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Knuckle-Bone Dice Used For Gambling And Divination Found Beneath Ancient Hellenic CityAncient dice Maresha

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Knuckle-Bone Dice Used For Gambling And Divination Found Beneath Ancient Hellenic CityAncient dice Maresha
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Knuckle-Bone Dice Used For Gambling And Divination Found Beneath Ancient Hellenic City

clock-iconAugust 19, 2022
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Roasted Puppy Fat And Salty Owls: Bizarre Medieval Medicine Revealed In New Digital ProjectDrawings of urine flasks, illustrating the different colours of a patient's urine, with their ailments described alongside, 15th century

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Roasted Puppy Fat And Salty Owls: Bizarre Medieval Medicine Revealed In New Digital ProjectDrawings of urine flasks, illustrating the different colours of a patient's urine, with their ailments described alongside, 15th century
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Roasted Puppy Fat And Salty Owls: Bizarre Medieval Medicine Revealed In New Digital Project

clock-iconAugust 19, 2022
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Giant Stone Reliefs Show Ancient Olmec Leaders In Trance-Like State Roaring Like JaguarsWhy so serious? Angry leaders are seen on two Olmec limestone reliefs recently discovered in the Mexican state of Tabasco.

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Giant Stone Reliefs Show Ancient Olmec Leaders In Trance-Like State Roaring Like JaguarsWhy so serious? Angry leaders are seen on two Olmec limestone reliefs recently discovered in the Mexican state of Tabasco.
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Giant Stone Reliefs Show Ancient Olmec Leaders In Trance-Like State Roaring Like Jaguars

clock-iconAugust 11, 2022
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New Snapshot Of Daily Lives Of The Middle Class Of Pompeii RevealedResearchers in hard hats in Pompeii excavating the site, with blue gloves on, yellow bucket and other tools

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New Snapshot Of Daily Lives Of The Middle Class Of Pompeii RevealedResearchers in hard hats in Pompeii excavating the site, with blue gloves on, yellow bucket and other tools
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New Snapshot Of Daily Lives Of The Middle Class Of Pompeii Revealed

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