Environment
We may have reached Madagascar 6000 years earlier than once thought
Cut marks on giant bird bones suggest humans reached Madagascar 10,000 years ago and may have coexisted with the island’s now extinct megafauna for millennia
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Environment
Iran’s Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia
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Humans
World’s first drawing is a red crayon doodle made 73,000 years ago
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Humans
A huge water-powered factory helped make food for Roman sailors
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Humans
Doomed crew seeking Northwest Passage didn’t die from lead poisoning
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Humans
The ancient palaces of Iraq glittered with a special type of glass
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Humans
5000-year-old monument was built by a society without leaders
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Humans
Mystery of Welsh bodies buried at Stonehenge as first stones arrived
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Earth
Mass graves found on Scottish islands may be ancient tsunami victims
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Earth
Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming
Evidence of the first early bread suggests humans were baking with wheat and oats thousands of years before they began farming the cereals
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Life
The amazing assortment of stuff at the bottom of one Amsterdam canal
Regulars
Earth
Record temperatures mean ancient forts become visible in fields
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Environment
Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty
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Humans
Ötzi the Iceman ran out of rock to make his tools before he died
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