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Did Japan have female samurai?Life's Little Mysteries The samurai are renowned as skilled warriors, but were any of them women?
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Poop-encrusted chamber pots from the Roman Empire reveal oldest known human cases of Crypto parasiteChamber pots from the frontier of the Roman Empire have provided the world's earliest evidence of humans infected with the Cryptosporidium parasite.
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Weapons of the world: Can you identify these historical objects of war?Quiz Can you identify these millennia- to centuries-old weapons from the smallest clues? Test your eye for history by matching carved details and close-up images to the legendary tools of war they once formed.
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'The detectors never stopped beeping!' Nearly 3,000 coins discovered in field are Norway's largest Viking hoard on recordA Viking Age hoard of nearly 3,000 coins is the largest hoard of its kind ever found in Norway.
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'We can no longer ignore diseases in the deep human past': Malaria influenced early humans' migrations across Africa, study suggestsPrehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.
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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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