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DNA analysis reveals West African ancestry in early medieval England
An unrelated pair of people buried in cemeteries in 7th-century Britain probably had grandparents from West Africa
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Why a mysterious group of ancient humans doesn鈥檛 have a species name
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Human bones found in Spanish cave show signs of ancient cannibalism
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DNA analysis reveals what really killed Napoleon’s army in 1812
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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 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鈥檛 conquer the world
Over tens of thousands of years, waves of Homo sapiens set out across Europe and Asia, only for their societies and cultures to mysteriously vanish. At last, ancient DNA is revealing why
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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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Tutankhamun was only a D-list pharaoh. So why was his tomb so opulent?
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Leprosy was in the Americas long before the arrival of Europeans
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