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Medieval dental plaque suggests women played important role as scribes
A rare blue pigment found in a medieval woman's teeth adds to the idea that many scribes at the time were women
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From the archives: When Soviet tanks crushed Czech science
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Quiz: What were these six bamboozling inventions designed to do?
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Answers: What were these six bamboozling inventions designed to do?
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Unearthed! The missing Native American city on the Great Plains
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They Shall Not Grow Old review: Restored footage brings war to life
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Old Scientist: 1968 was the surprising year of space race gloom
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Edge of Memory: Distrusting oral tradition may make us more ignorant
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How a janitor wowed Darwin by solving the ice age mystery
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Yuval Noah Harari: Why the reluctant guru is upsetting scientists
What could possibly go wrong when a world famous public intellectual grapples with our bewilderingly strange times? Find out in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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Did ancient Mayan civilisation collapse because of a sudden drought?
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Mystery of Welsh bodies buried at Stonehenge as first stones arrived
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Mass graves found on Scottish islands may be ancient tsunami victims
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