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Surprising skeletons prompt a radical rethink of Egyptian pyramids
For years, Egyptologists have assumed pyramid tombs were just for the rich – but the burials at a site called Tombos don’t fit this pattern
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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
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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
Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil record is spotty in places, but the latest finds could give us enough clues to pin down how we are linked
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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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Ancient humans understood the future and the past pretty much as we do
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How DNA in dirt is reshaping our understanding of Stone Age humans
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