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'Lifelong monogamy' and 'half orphans': DNA analysis reveals clues about life on the Roman frontier after the fall of RomeBurials from over a millennia ago are revealing how people lived in part of the Roman Empire after it fell.
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1,900-year-old souvenir cup featuring Hadrian's Wall and Roman forts discovered in SpainArchaeologists think a broken bronze cup found in Spain was made for a soldier as a memento of his time stationed at Hadrian's Wall in England.
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Neanderthals' brains weren't to blame for their demise, new study suggestsResearchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains differed from modern humans', calling into question the reason our evolutionary cousins mysteriously disappeared.
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Miniature camelid effigy: A 600-year-old sculpture of a llama that may have been sacrificed in an Inca ritualAstonishing Artifacts Llamas were vital to the Inca Empire and were seen as both useful pack animals and sacred beings.
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DNA study of nearly 200 Indigenous genomes reveals unknown Asian 'ghost' population contributed to American ancestryNew genetic results reveal a previously unknown wave of people settled in South America 1,300 years ago and that Indigenous Americans carry remnants of a "ghost lineage."
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Egyptian mummy has part of the 'Iliad' in its abdomen, archaeologists discoverA papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at the cemetery had gold tongues.
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Neanderthal toddlers grew faster than modern humans, probably because of the harsh environment they evolved inA new study of a Neanderthal toddler reveals that our closest evolutionary relatives' growth patterns differed from those of modern humans.
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Altar to Sol: A rare 1,900-year-old monument dedicated to the Roman god of light and used in a secret underground ritualAstonishing Artifacts This unique carved altar represents the triumph of light over darkness in ancient Roman religion.
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700-year-old mummy from Bolivia contains earliest confirmed evidence of strep throat bacteria in the AmericasA DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed that the bacterium that causes scarlet fever and strep throat was present in the Americas prior to European colonization.
