Stonehenge-like circle unearthed in Denmark – archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circle
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Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of engraved sun stones – linked with a large volcanic eruption that made the sun disappear throughout Northern Europe
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12,000-year-old Aboriginal sticks may be evidence of the oldest known culturally transmitted ritual in the world
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The Vikings and the Muslim scholar
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The shape of Vodou in diaspora
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Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists
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The Roman triumph
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Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital
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