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Relics in Tutankhamun鈥檚 tomb hint he invented elaborate burial rites
Tutankhamun ruled ancient Egypt shortly after a period of religious instability, and objects from his tomb suggest he took advantage to invent new funerary rituals
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Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life
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Surprising skeletons prompt a radical rethink of Egyptian pyramids
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Ancient humans lived in an ‘uninhabitable’ climate 25,000 years ago
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Ancient face bones offer clues to identity of early humans in Europe
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The biggest coincidence in human evolution
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Ancient humans used bone tools a million years earlier than we thought
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Humans were living in tropical forests surprisingly early
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Ancient hunters may have used throwing spears 300,000 years ago
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Most Europeans may have had dark skin until less than 3000 years ago
Ancient DNA from 348 individuals suggests that pale skin became the predominant characteristic of people living in Europe much later than assumed
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The story of ancient Mesopotamia and the dawn of the modern world
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Fossil proteins may soon reveal how we’re related to Australopithecus
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Enigmatic people who took over Europe millennia ago came from Ukraine
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Has a volcanic eruption ever wiped out a species of hominins?
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