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Earliest known drawing found on rock in South African cave
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With another version of The Mummy menacing cinemas, the “curse of the pharaohs” is back. Again. Hollywood’s determination to put marauding mummies...
Ancient Egyptian Cats Didn’t Look The Way You Think
by David Anderson
Our perceptions of the ancient world are shaped by the way surviving relics appear in the present day. The cool...
5,000-Year-Old ‘Billboard’ of Hieroglyphs Contains a Cosmic Message
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Ancient Cave in China Filled With 45,000-Year-Old Stone Tools
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Evidence of a ‘Vanished’ Civilisation May Have Been Rediscovered in the US
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Signs of a culture that disappeared without a trace seven centuries ago have now been found in a rather unusual place –...
Earth’s magnetic pole is on the move, fast.
By Jamie Seidel
Planet Earth is alive. Deep beneath its skin, its life blood — rivers of molten iron — pulse around its core. And...
Life on Mars? Study Showing Martian Soil Kills Bacteria Dims Hopes
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Recent images and other compelling evidence that water once flowed on Mars have generated hope of finding microbial life there. That hope...
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