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Hieroglyphics

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Hieroglyphics

Hieroglyphics is a writing system invented in Egypt around 5000 years ago.

Fossil teeth

Humans

A skull suggests humans have been getting piercings for 12,000 years

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Why walking your way to better health isn't all about step counting

Features

musical score

Humans

Humans across cultures may share the same universal musical grammar

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Wealthy families in prehistoric Europe may have had live-in slaves

Humans

Wealthy families in prehistoric Europe may have had live-in slaves

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Description:Picture of drinking vessel: Greek drinking cup from the Early Celtic princely burial mound Kleinaspergle. This vessel is similar to those whose pottery fragments were found in the Celtic settlement on the Mont Lassois

Humans

Ancient Celts were partial to beer, mead and imported Greek wines

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Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks

Humans

Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks

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faces

Humans

Does population genetics have a racism problem, even today?

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Svalbard vault

Earth

Underland is a profound journey into the mirror world of the dead

Culture

hominin jaw

Humans

Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?

A study of some 8-million-year-old teeth found in Greece suggests a controversial idea: that hominins arose in Europe and then moved into Africa later

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Humans

Humans couldn't pronounce 'f' and 'v' sounds before farming developed

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Humans

Ancient humans thrived in rainforests by hunting monkeys and squirrels

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