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Skeletons of war dead from 11,000 BC go on show at the British Museum
13 Jul 2014:The remains, displaying breaks and slash marks of violent death, were found in a cemetery on the banks of the Nile river
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23 Jul 2014:Jonathan Jones: The ancient Egyptian boy-king's tomb was excavated in 1923, then people started dropping like flies. A new exhibition explores the greatest archaeology story ever told
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21 Jul 2014:
Site member SuperBen interviews the author of the Adventure Island and Secrets of the Tomb series about writing mysteries, going to Egypt and gold-plated Jammie Dodgers
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15 Jul 2014:
From communal Roman bathrooms to a Russian space station toilet, view a history of human ablutions
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14 Jul 2014:
The remains, displaying breaks and slash marks of violent death, were found in a cemetery on the banks of the Nile river
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10 Jul 2014: Sale of 4,000-year-old Sekhemka limestone figure will help pay for extension of Northampton museum and art gallery
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1 Jun 2014: Fears for ancient sites and tourism prompts use of satellite imagery to track extent of damage wrought by theft of artefacts
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26 May 2014: Pot sheds light on the work of archeologist Flinders Petrie whose finds scattered across the world in the late 19th century
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19 May 2014:
From Edgar Allan Poe to Scooby Doo, culture is cursed with the ancient Egyptian dead. Jonathan Jones visits the British Museum's mummy store to unwrap our fascination
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2 May 2014:
Kate Ravilious on the source of the iron used in artefacts discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from hundreds of years before the start of the Egyptian iron age
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11 Apr 2014: A gothic tale of horror and neglect about the an Egyptology-loving couple and the effect of their obsession on their twins
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9 Apr 2014: Archaeologists unearth 3,300-year-old coffin at Tel Shadud thought to hold Canaanite official in service of Egyptian pharaoh
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9 Apr 2014:
The British Museum's next big exhibition reveals secrets that experts have been able only to guess at – until now
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20 Feb 2014:
Svante Pääbo's pioneering exploration of ancient DNA may be about to reveal what makes us human, writes Peter Forbes
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16 Feb 2014:
The eminent Egyptologist brings depth of knowledge to his ancient history but can be shallow in the present, writes Anthony Sattin
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22 Jan 2014:
The discovery of his 3,600-year-old tomb has revealed the existence of a previously unknown dynasty
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