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Ancient pots found near Pompeii contain 2500-year-old honey
A mysterious residue inside a set of ancient Greek pots from Paestum, Italy, has now been identified as honey thanks to modern chemical analysis
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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
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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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Before the Great Wall, Chinese rulers built a shallow ditch
A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been erected to control the flow of people, perhaps for tax reasons
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We鈥檙e about to unlock the secrets of ancient human brains
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Medieval woman was executed and displayed on London riverbank
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Ancient Maltese temples may have been schools for celestial navigation
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First evidence of gladiator fight with lion seen in Roman-era skeleton
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