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Ancient jawbone reveals a 2500-kilometre journey from Sudan to Rome

Analysis of a 1700-year-old jawbone found in a catacomb in Rome suggests it belonged to someone who grew up beyond southern margins of the Roman Empire, perhaps in what is now Sudan

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Stepped platforms in Mesopotamia were the oldest known war memorial

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Earliest known war was a repeated conflict in Sudan 13,400 years ago

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Alice Roberts: Archaeogenetics will help us solve mysteries of past

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Non-kosher fish eaten in Jerusalem during early days of Judaism

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Isotope study hints ancient Greeks used foreign fighters in key battle

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Rubber slabs washed up in Brazil traced to second world war shipwreck

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Cerne Abbas Giant may have been carved into hill over 1000 years ago

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78,000 year old human burial is oldest in Africa

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Remains of a 3-year-old child are the oldest known burial in Africa

The oldest known burial in Africa is of a 3-year-old child who died around 78,000 years ago, shedding light on how people in the region cared for their dead at that time

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King Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose carried crew from North Africa

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Viking remains lost for more than a century rediscovered in a museum

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Arabian cult may have built 1000 monuments older than Stonehenge

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Early Europeans shared a currency made from odd chunks of bronze

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