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Mysterious alignment: How do ancient monoliths still line up with the sun?

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Mysterious alignment: How do ancient monoliths still line up with the sun?

How can ancient monoliths that were aligned with the sun at the equinox thousands of years ago still be lined up, given that plate tectonics moves land masses over the years?

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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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Neanderthal string

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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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The stunning east Asian city that dates to the dawn of civilisation

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‘Bonehenge’: Stone Age structure of mammoth bones discovered in Russia

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‘Bonehenge’: Stone Age structure of mammoth bones discovered in Russia

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Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools

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Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools

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Thousands of Denisovan tools reveal their Stone Age technologies

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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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Ancient people tried to stop rising seas with spears or fiery boulders

When natural global warming raised seas by 120 metres starting around 18,000 years ago, people tried to protect themselves by building walls or rolling fiery boulders into the sea

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Who invented the alphabet? The untold story of a linguistic revolution

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Stone Age replica raft almost ready to repeat epic prehistoric voyage

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Ancient well may be the world's oldest wooden architectural structure

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