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We thought the Incas couldn’t write. These knots change everything
A lost language encoded in intricate cords is finally revealing its secrets 鈥� and it could upend what we know about Incan history and culture
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We may have reached Madagascar 6000 years earlier than once thought
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Iran’s Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia
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World鈥檚 first drawing is a red crayon doodle made 73,000 years ago
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A huge water-powered factory helped make food for Roman sailors
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Doomed crew seeking Northwest Passage didn鈥檛 die from lead poisoning
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The ancient palaces of Iraq glittered with a special type of glass
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5000-year-old monument was built by a society without leaders
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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
A rare tsunami may have struck the islands of Shetland and Orkney off the UK鈥檚 north coast 5500 years ago, killing dozens of people who had to be hastily buried
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Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming
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The amazing assortment of stuff at the bottom of one Amsterdam canal
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Record temperatures mean ancient forts become visible in fields
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Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty
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