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Houses, fortifications, pyramids and causeways were among the discoveries
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The best of the U.S. National Archive's #ArchivesBlackHistory
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Palaeontologists were first alerted to the fossil by a 10-year-old tourist
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The tools may suggest that humans dispersed from Africa earlier than previously believed. But not all experts agree
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Three of the Unesco World Heritage site's enigmatic glyphs were harmed, but authorities believe they can repair the damage
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In an act of protest, the London National Portrait Gallery work was damaged in 1914. It returns to mark 100 years of the Representation of the People Act
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She was buried in a cave in central Greece around 9,000 years ago
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Researchers test it out on a medieval epic to investigate whether the Battle of Clontarf was fought against the Vikings or was part of an Irish civil war
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An interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and physicists came together to discover the purpose of the ancient bit of sharpened red ochre
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Linguistic analysis indicates at least two of the most infamous letters were likely written by the same person—and that person was not the Ripper
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But medieval scholars are skeptical about this latest attempt to decipher the world's "most mysterious book"
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The Berlin native returned to the city after the war and became renowned for playing the electric guitar
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Piu Eatwell's recent true crime book on the case suggests that one-time suspect Leslie Dillon was the killer of Elizabeth Short in the unsolved 1947 murder
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The controversy around <i>Padmaavat</i> centers around its depiction of a legendary Hindu queen
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The dilapidated structure appears to be an early iteration of the infamous Cold War partition
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Explore continents, islands and unicorns with scholar Urbano Monte's epic map that's been digitally pieced together by Stanford’s David Rumsey Map Center
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Spanning 6,000 years, the well-preserved items hint at the history of mountain dwellers
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Researchers at the University College of London are working to find a way to read the ancient scraps without destroying the artifacts in the process
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A new campaign by historians seeks to bring recognition to the site where the 20th president was shot
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Historians pay tribute to the legacy of Naomi Parker Fraley, who died Saturday at 96. In 2015, she was linked, circumstantially, to the We Can Do It poster
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