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Homo naledi's burial practices could change what it means to be human

If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our species may be less special than we thought

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Temple of Augustus and Rome ruins, in Turkey

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AI helps reconstruct damaged Latin inscriptions from the Roman Empire

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What were ancient humans thinking when they began to bury their dead?

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2K6ERBY Flock of sheeps moving down the valley, French Alps, border with Switzerland

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Ranching and farming have eroded almost all the soil in the Alps

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Neanderthal groups had their own local food culture

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70,000 years ago humans underwent a major shift – that’s why we exist

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'Hybrid' skull may have been a child of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens

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Ancient DNA reveals make-up of Roman Empire’s favourite sauce

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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

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by preservation materials. A new estimate suggests the mammoth-ivory artefact is 40,000 years old

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Ancient people took wallabies to Indonesian islands in canoes

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We finally know what the face of a Denisovan looked like

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Ancient humans’ extraordinary journey to South America

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

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