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Archaeology

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Archaeologists are uncovering the meaning of a unique rock art site

Excavations in the C么a valley in Portugal, the world鈥檚 largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers

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Front and back views of the Shanidar A scapula

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Neanderthal skeleton found with horrific injuries

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A Possible Early Bronze Age Shipwreck

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Ancient shipwreck discovered off Turkey claimed to be world’s oldest

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Wooden object from the Abric Roman铆 site interpreted as a wooden club

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Neanderthal Europe was as much a wooden age as a stone age

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Anglo-Saxons got special treatment in medieval Rome

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Turi King: Solving criminal cold cases and archaeological mysteries with DNA

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Skull showing nasal amputation

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Ancient skeleton shows woman in imperial China had her nose amputated

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Mathematics

The Parthenon’s architectural illusions are a myth

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Roman roads weren’t so straight after all

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Comment

New 精东传媒 recommends a fascinating deep dive into the real Vikings

The stories we tell about the Vikings often say more about us than them. Archaeologist Neil Price's new book The Sea-King and the Sorceress tries to show the Norse as they were, says Michael Marshall

Culture

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Denisovan tools from cave in China show how mysterious humans lived

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The 85-million-year timeline of human evolution

Features

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Smallpox DNA in ancient Inca mummies shows virus came from Europe

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Woolly mammoths butchered by humans were mostly female

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