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Ancient rock art rewrites the natural history of Arabia
The archaeological record suggests few large animals lived in Arabia in the last few thousand years, but prehistoric rock art from the area depicts a host of big beasts
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Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire
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Primate archaeology: Digging up secrets of the monkey Stone Age
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Unearthed: Why we’ve got monuments like Stonehenge all wrong
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Baby skeleton from Alaska reveals origins of Native Americans
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Hoax or not? Three ancient texts with controversial origins
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Venice may be almost 200 years older than anyone thought
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How World War Zero wrecked three Bronze Age civilisations
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A shipwreck has been found from the time of Alexander the Great
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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species
The 260,000-year-old Dali skull was found in China, but it looks a lot like the earliest known members of our species 鈥� which were found in Africa
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Cosmic rays have revealed a new chamber in Egypt鈥檚 Great Pyramid
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Cracking it: Enigma鈥檚 Alan Turing and Linear B鈥檚 Michael Ventris
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The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks
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Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils
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