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We’ve just found the largest and oldest Mayan monument yet
The 3000-year-old site of Aguada F茅nix is the oldest and largest Mayan monument to be discovered and dates from a time before the society had a powerful ruling class
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Ancient Egyptians saw the sky as crumbling iron tub filled with water
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I’m a space archaeologist studying junk strewn across the solar system
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An AI can tell whether ancient faeces came from a person or a dog
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Monkeys made their way from Africa to South America at least twice
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Oldest ever piece of string was made by Neanderthals 50,000 years ago
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Farming and art arose in New Guinea at same time as Europe and Asia
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The stunning east Asian city that dates to the dawn of civilisation
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鈥楤onehenge鈥�: Stone Age structure of mammoth bones discovered in Russia
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Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools
Skull fragments from Homo erectus found alongside stone tools in Ethiopia suggest the ancient hominin used more tool technology than we thought
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Thousands of Denisovan tools reveal their Stone Age technologies
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Ancient people tried to stop rising seas with spears or fiery boulders
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Who invented the alphabet? The untold story of a linguistic revolution
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