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60,000-Year-Old Glue-Making Oven Found In Neanderthals' Seaside CaveThe entrance to Vanguard Cave, part of the Gorham's Cave Complex, in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.

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60,000-Year-Old Glue-Making Oven Found In Neanderthals' Seaside CaveThe entrance to Vanguard Cave, part of the Gorham's Cave Complex, in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.
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60,000-Year-Old Glue-Making Oven Found In Neanderthals' Seaside Cave

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Goat-Fish Carving Is First-Ever Zodiac Symbol In Egyptian Rock ArtAncient Egyptian Capricornus glyph

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Goat-Fish Carving Is First-Ever Zodiac Symbol In Egyptian Rock ArtAncient Egyptian Capricornus glyph
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Goat-Fish Carving Is First-Ever Zodiac Symbol In Egyptian Rock Art

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In 1177 BCE, Civilizations Fell Apart In A Mysterious Simultaneous CollapseIllustration of a relief from the mortuary temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu showing the Battle of the Delta between Egypt and the Sea Peoples.

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In 1177 BCE, Civilizations Fell Apart In A Mysterious Simultaneous CollapseIllustration of a relief from the mortuary temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu showing the Battle of the Delta between Egypt and the Sea Peoples.
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In 1177 BCE, Civilizations Fell Apart In A Mysterious Simultaneous Collapse

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Neanderthal Children May Have Collected Fossils, Just Like Modern Kids Collect StickersNeanderthal child

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Neanderthal Children May Have Collected Fossils, Just Like Modern Kids Collect StickersNeanderthal child
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Neanderthal Children May Have Collected Fossils, Just Like Modern Kids Collect Stickers

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Aztec Death Whistles Have A Terrifying Effect On Listeners’ BrainsAztec death whistle

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Aztec Death Whistles Have A Terrifying Effect On Listeners’ BrainsAztec death whistle
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Aztec Death Whistles Have A Terrifying Effect On Listeners’ Brains

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12,000-Year-Old Spinning Pebbles May Have Set Humanity’s Wheels In MotionA 12,000-year-old spindle whorl

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12,000-Year-Old Spinning Pebbles May Have Set Humanity’s Wheels In MotionA 12,000-year-old spindle whorl
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12,000-Year-Old Spinning Pebbles May Have Set Humanity’s Wheels In Motion

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Beautiful Relics From Ancient Egypt Found In Hidden Chamber Down A 14-Meter ShaftIdy’s beautifully decorated coffins were recently discovered by archeologists from the The Asyut Project.

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Beautiful Relics From Ancient Egypt Found In Hidden Chamber Down A 14-Meter ShaftIdy’s beautifully decorated coffins were recently discovered by archeologists from the The Asyut Project.
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Beautiful Relics From Ancient Egypt Found In Hidden Chamber Down A 14-Meter Shaft

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What Really Happened To The "Unluckiest Person In History" At Pompeii?A victim of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius.

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What Really Happened To The "Unluckiest Person In History" At Pompeii?A victim of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius.
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What Really Happened To The "Unluckiest Person In History" At Pompeii?

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Humans Had Sex With At Least Three Different Denisovan PopulationsArtifacts from Denisova Cave

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Humans Had Sex With At Least Three Different Denisovan PopulationsArtifacts from Denisova Cave
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Humans Had Sex With At Least Three Different Denisovan Populations

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Laetoli Footprints: A 3.6 Million-Year-Old Stroll Revealed Early Human Evolutionary HistoryTest-pit L8 at Laetoli Site S, another set of footprints at the site unearthed in 2015.

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Laetoli Footprints: A 3.6 Million-Year-Old Stroll Revealed Early Human Evolutionary HistoryTest-pit L8 at Laetoli Site S, another set of footprints at the site unearthed in 2015.
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Laetoli Footprints: A 3.6 Million-Year-Old Stroll Revealed Early Human Evolutionary History

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Who Were The Cro-Magnon People?A photo showing the cave art at the Lascaux Cave in France. The image shows a horse painted in red medium being imposed on the black outline of a large bull-like animal. Below it are smaller black representations of other horse-like animals.

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Who Were The Cro-Magnon People?A photo showing the cave art at the Lascaux Cave in France. The image shows a horse painted in red medium being imposed on the black outline of a large bull-like animal. Below it are smaller black representations of other horse-like animals.
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Who Were The Cro-Magnon People?

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Pompeii Victims Weren’t Who We Thought They Were, DNA Analysis RevealsBody casts of two Pompeii victims

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Pompeii Victims Weren’t Who We Thought They Were, DNA Analysis RevealsBody casts of two Pompeii victims
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Pompeii Victims Weren’t Who We Thought They Were, DNA Analysis Reveals

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A Cave In North Africa Holds 15,000-Year-Old Evidence Of Drug UseThe entrance to Taforalt, aka Grotte des Pigeons, pictured in 2017.

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A Cave In North Africa Holds 15,000-Year-Old Evidence Of Drug UseThe entrance to Taforalt, aka Grotte des Pigeons, pictured in 2017.
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A Cave In North Africa Holds 15,000-Year-Old Evidence Of Drug Use

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15,800-Year-Old Sketches Reveal People Were Fishing With Nets Much Earlier Than Thought15,800-year-old engraving of a fish in a net

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15,800-Year-Old Sketches Reveal People Were Fishing With Nets Much Earlier Than Thought15,800-year-old engraving of a fish in a net
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15,800-Year-Old Sketches Reveal People Were Fishing With Nets Much Earlier Than Thought

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The Oldest Text In The Worldancient symbols

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The Oldest Text In The Worldancient symbols
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The Oldest Text In The World

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