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October 4, 2011 0 Comments

Love of animals led to language and man’s domination of Earth

Humans became masters of the planet for a startling reason: our love of animals gave us unsurpassed power over nature. This is the claim of a leading American anthropologist who says our prehistoric ancestors’ intense relationships with other creatures – including those we hunt, keep as pets and use for food – propelled humanity towards global domination.

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September 30, 2011 0 Comments

Stone-age toddlers had art lessons, study says

Research on Dordogne cave art shows children learned to finger-paint in palaeolithic age, approximately 13,000 years ago

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September 29, 2011 0 Comments

Bodleian Library shows off treasures, from Magna Carta to Shakespeare

Oxford library to ask exhibition visitors which items deserve permanent display – including a First Folio it once threw away

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September 29, 2011 0 Comments

Roman coin jar the Frome Hoard to feature in new exhibition

The container will display in Taunton Castle’s revamped Somerset County Museum which acquired it for £320,000

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September 23, 2011 0 Comments

Pompeii shows its true colours

‘Pompeiian red’ was created when gases from Vesuvius reacted with yellow paint, research reveals

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September 21, 2011 0 Comments

Antonine wall fills gaps in story of Roman occupation of Britain

Wall that once marked Roman empire’s border in Scotland will give up some of its secrets for Glasgow’s Hunterian museum

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September 20, 2011 0 Comments

Pompeii villa opens in Paris, but Roman ruins remain at risk in Italy

More than 200 artefacts loaned to Musée Maillol in Franco-Italian joint effort to highlight plight of Unesco heritage site

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September 19, 2011 0 Comments

Roman baths discovered under Thameslink site in Southwark

Archaologists find ruins of cold plunge bath and hypocaust heating system in south London near the river Thames

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September 12, 2011 1 Comment

In Tripoli’s museum of antiquity only Gaddafi is lost in revolution

Libyan antiquities museum escaped ravages of revolution, but former dictator becomes an artifact of modern history

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September 1, 2011 0 Comments

Hand axes unearthed in Kenya are oldest advanced stone tools ever found

Discovery suggests early humans were wielding sophisticated stone tools at least 300,000 years earlier than thought

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August 23, 2011 0 Comments

Druid leader King Arthur loses legal fight over Stonehenge remains

High court refuses judicial review of decision to remove 5,000-year-old ‘royal’ remains from Stonehenge for analysis

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August 23, 2011 0 Comments

Archaeologists discover Roman port in Wales

Second known port of Roman Britain unearthed during archaeological dig near fortress of Caerleon

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August 18, 2011 0 Comments

Archaeologist digs into grandad’s tale to uncover lost Yorkshire amphitheatre

A national theatre of the north is found on summit of Studforth Hill in Aldborough

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August 18, 2011 0 Comments

Black Death study lets rats off the hook

Plague of 1348-49 spread so fast in London the carriers had to be humans not black rats, says archaeologist

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August 7, 2011 0 Comments

‘Secret garden’ Wrest Park reopens after restoration

The 90-acre park in Bedfordshire contains ’300 years of garden history’ and boasts Versailles-style viewsWrest Park restoration – in pictures

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July 14, 2011 0 Comments

British Library seeks £9m to buy oldest book in Europe

Library launches appeal to purchase 7th-century Cuthbert Gospel, which it has had on loan since 1979

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July 11, 2011 2 Comments

Roman town of Venta Icenorum site bought for public ownership

Unusual move with English Heritage, National Heritage Memorial Fund and other money helps to preserve buried archaeological site in Norfolk

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June 30, 2011 0 Comments

British Museum remains UK’s top attraction for fourth year running

Amid celebrations, staff are having to clean kiss marks off the display cases of museum’s latest heavenly exhibition

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June 21, 2011 0 Comments

Hadrian’s Wall dig unearths Roman refugee camp

Team finds hundreds of unusual buildings likely to have housed natives seen as traitors by tribes in what is now Scotland

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June 21, 2011 0 Comments

Badge dug up in field is medieval treasure

Scrap of twisted silver found by metal detector in Lancashire will be part of British Museum’s exhibition of reliquaries

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June 17, 2011 0 Comments

Broadgate centre not worth listing, says culture secretary, paving way for UBS

Jeremy Hunt refuses to protect 1980s complex in City of London, enabling British Land to build new HQ for investment bank UBS

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June 15, 2011 0 Comments

British Museum wins Art Fund prize

Britain’s biggest prize for museums has been awarded to the biggest of them all – the British Museum, which won for its BBC-partnered A History of the World, a series charting the millennia through 100 objects.