Navajo code talker who helped allies win Second World War dies aged 107
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Danish family seek to return Etruscan objects to Italy – Bent Søndergaard's children say they want to carry out ‘his final wishes’ and send back antiquities he bought in 1960s
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Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds
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Divers have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the Swedish coast loaded to the brim with champagne
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Uncovered: 428-year-old secret dossier reveals Elizabeth I’s network of spies
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Fossil of Neanderthal child with Down’s syndrome hints at early humans’ compassion
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Battle to save pristine prehistoric rock art from vast new quarry in Norway – archaeologists fear more than 2,000 carved figures could be destroyed
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Ali Abdullah Saleh obituary [2017]
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Commentary - on archaeology and small mundane discoveries
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. Canadian scientists say evidence shows digits may have been ritually removed to appease deities or aid social cohesion.
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Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge
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No rides, but lots of rows: ‘reactionary’ French theme park plots expansion
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Solar storm confirms Vikings were settled in North America in 1021AD
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Metal detectorist makes Norway's ‘gold find of century’ – cache comprised nine gold medallions and gold pearls that once formed an opulent necklace, as well as three gold rings
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It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships
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Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn
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A Gaelic-speaking warrior queen called Aud is central to an emerging theory that Scottish and Irish Celts played a far bigger role in Iceland's history than realised
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Vikings brought their animals to England, research suggests – experts find evidence at Derbyshire cremation site of horses and dogs originating from the Baltic Shield
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Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb
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‘Exceptional’ trove of twenty-four ancient statues found immersed in Tuscan spa
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa
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Three centuries on, a shaman's precious rune drum returns home – instrument confiscated by the Danes is given back to the Sámi
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Stealing Britain's history: When metal detectorists go rogue
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Modern analysis of a 1,000-year-old grave in Finland challenges long-held beliefs about gender roles in ancient societies
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The secret of how Roald Amundsen beat Captain Robert Falcon Scott in race to south pole? A diet of raw penguin
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Cambodia condemns Vice for edited photos of Khmer Rouge victims smiling
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Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters
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'Sistine Chapel of the ancients' rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest
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Dark hair was common among Vikings – research reveals they were a genetically diverse group and not purely Scandinavian
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Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
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Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age
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Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge
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Sweden to present findings on Olof Palme assassination – sources say South Africa handed over dossier, but not everyone is hopeful mystery will be solved
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Oldest and largest Maya structure discovered in southern Mexico
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The real Lord of the Flies: What happened when six boys were shipwrecked for fifteen months
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How the Kent State massacre marked the start of America's polarization
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Pompeii ruins show that the Romans invented recycling
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Board-game piece from period of first Viking raid found on Lindisfarne – small glass crown thought to be rare archaeological link to raiders
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Cod war tensions with Iceland – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats in 1976
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A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
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Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said
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Neolithic chewing gum helps recreate image of ancient Dane – analysis of birch tar describes a female hunter-gatherer with dark skin and blue eyes
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered two wrecks believed to be 17th-century warships – one of which is likely to be the sister ship of the Vasa
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How Britain dishonoured its African first world war dead
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MI6 accused of thwarting efforts to solve the 1961 killing of UN chief Dag Hammarskjöld
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Raoul Wallenberg is thought to have saved as many as 30,000 Jews but his descendants do not know how, when or why he died
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Budj Bim indigenous eel trap site on verge of world heritage listing
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'It could change everything': Coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa
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How the US has hidden its empire: The United States likes to think of itself as a republic, but it holds territories all over the world – the map you always see doesn’t tell the whole story.
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