Archaeology
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Kevin Schurer and Turi King of the University of Leicester explain a mitochondrial DNA analysis confirming with almost 100% certainty that the bones found under a car park in Leicester are those of King Richard III
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Tests on descendants of last Plantagenet king point to ‘false paternity event’ and reveal he may have been blue-eyed blond
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Archaeologists and conservation groups divided in reaction to proposals to put A303 under world heritage site
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Forensic specialists look for treasure amid the debris after the catastrophic fire that destroyed an art nouveau gem
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The €15,000 project is part of a campaign in Spain to locate the mass graves of those executed during Franco’s dictatorship
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Zahi Hawass denies claim that he helped German hobbyists steal samples from Great Pyramid at Giza
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An account of the Flood significantly different from that told in the Bible should have resonances with modern audiences, writes Nick Fraser
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Curators confront demands to return artefacts from collections reflecting an evolving attitude to the appropriation of items
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Ryan Harris had been searching for the wreck of the lost ship of John Franklin for six years. Now, having finally located it, he tells Robin McKie what the find may reveal about the doomed expedition to discover the North West Passage
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Choquequirao is one of the most remote Inca ruins in the Peruvian Andes, but plans for a cable car could bring much change to Machu Picchu’s ‘little sister’
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Slovenian archaeologist Ivan Šprajc is behind discovery of three significant ruins in the remote jungles of the Yucatán peninsula
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Young experts bring fresh ideas to help reform institutions in charge of likes of Tutankhamun’s tomb and Giza pyramids
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Craft named after Egyptian obelisk will land on comet and collect samples that could give clues to origins of the galaxy
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Jonathan Jones: Computer-scan images of the ‘real’ boy pharaoh are crass and morbid. Archaeological techniques should be used to enhance our understanding of the past, not destroy its mysteries
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An archaeologist with an octocopter explores Tintagel Castle and surprises a few tourists in this novel take on the history show, writes Sam Wollaston
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Scientists studying stash of ‘warrior bling’ discover use of secret technique which gave lower grade metal the appearance of gold
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Geologists, climate scientists, ecologists – and a lawyer – to rule on whether impact of human life on Earth has pushed us into a new epoch
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Retired businessman Derek McLennan found more than 100 objects, including solid gold jewellery, on church land last month
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Archaeologists excavating Amphipolis site have discovered an intricate, and largely intact, floor mosaic dating back to 300BC
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Other lives: Librarian who became involved in many groups researching and collecting information on industrial history
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An international team of divers find new artefacts while excavating an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera
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Third search for truth about sunken vessel near Antikythera island in Greece reveals objects including bronze spear
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Country diary: Birchen Edge, Derbyshire: The moorland and birch scrub is smothered in archaeological wonders – cairns, field systems, tumuli
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Jeff Sparrow: Ancient sites exemplify the persistence of our collective culture, our sole consolation for the inescapability of our death. What should be done when such treasures are destroyed?
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UN researchers find proof that wreck initially believed to have been explorer’s flagship is actually from later period
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Forensic archaeologist with a leading role in the operation to find the bodies of people murdered by Irish Republican paramilitaries
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Mongabay: Living arboreal chinchilla rat thought to have been extinct is tracked down in Peruvian cloud forests
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Natalie Haynes: Archaeologists hope that the public will be able to help with the reconstruction of a temple to Mithras in the City of London, adding another chapter to an enduring affair
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Experts hope to recover memories of site when it was first excavated 60 years ago to help reconstruct it accurately
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A look at how Richard III, the last English monarch to die fighting, perished at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485
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Detailed scans of bones show that he sustained 11 wounds at or near the time of his death, nine of them to the skull
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Exosuit will enable divers to reach double normal depths during return expedition to wreck that yielded Antikythera mechanism
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Other lives: Distinguished scholar of classical archaeology who worked as a curator at the British Museum
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Buzzwords What language tells us about the roots of the stone age diet