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2015 preview: Meet more of your long-lost cousins
A major discovery of hundreds of bones belonging to mysterious early humans may soon add another piece to the puzzle of our messy evolution
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Bone bonanza: Chamber of secrets yields human remains
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Bone drug goes after calcium in breast tumours
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Mass grave tells tales of life on the Forgotten Front
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Oldest dental filling is found in a Stone Age tooth
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New twist in the tale of Tutankhamun’s club foot
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Ancient Egyptians believed in coiffure after death
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First images from Great Pyramid’s chamber of secrets
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Mayans ‘played’ pyramids to make music for rain god
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What killed Dr Granville’s mummy?
Augustus Granville unpacked his props: he had bandages, bottles of chemicals, a bundle of candles and various bits of an Egyptian mummy. Mummy-mania was in full swing and public unrolling all the rage. But this wasn't going to be a shilling-a-ticket spectacle: Granville was giving a scientific lecture. He had spent weeks unwrapping and dissecting a mummy, meticulously measuring, recording and experimenting as he sought to unravel the mysteries of the embalmer's art. Yet even he couldn't resist one small theatrical flourish. To transport his audience back to the time when his mummy was so perfectly prepared for life after death, he lit the room with candles made from the very wax he believed had preserved her.
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Shoddy ships sank invasion of Japan
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Pompeii’s bars not so seedy after all
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Hanging gardens were a living carpet
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Gladiators fought for thrills, not kills
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