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Royal rumpus over King Tutankhamun’s ancestry
A DNA analysis last year hailed as "the final word" on the famous pharaoh's family tree has been criticised as anything but
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Fall of Roman Empire linked to wild shifts in climate
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Getting medieval: The first firefights
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Fossil secrets of the Leonardo da Vinci codex
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Do Egyptian mummies have a right to privacy?
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Reconstructed: Archimedes’s flaming steam cannon
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Dear diary, I am sick to death… David Livingstone
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Earth calling: A short history of radio messages to ET
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Newton’s apple: The real story
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A history of walking on water
How did the world's pre-eminent "aquatic pedestrian" stroll over the surface of the Mississippi river in 1907?
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Scuba diving to the depths of human history
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From sanctuary to snake pit: the rise and fall of asylums
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Underwater town breaks antiquity record
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What should museums throw out?
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