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Digital Mycenae

05 Jun 2020

Explore the ancient Greek city of Mycenae in a newly released digital archive.

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Cambridge researchers awarded European Research Council funding

01 Apr 2020

Four researchers at the University of Cambridge have won advanced grants from the European Research Council (ERC), Europe’s premier research funding...

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Shanidar Z: what did Neanderthals do with their dead?

18 Feb 2020

Archaeologists have unearthed a Neanderthal skeleton in a famous cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland

06 Jan 2020

Medieval Greenlanders may have chased dwindling walrus herds ever farther north in an effort to maintain their economy, when the value of walrus...

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Microscopic egg of a fish tapeworm and Must Farm excavation site

Ancient faeces reveal how ‘marsh diet’ left Bronze Age Fen folk infected with parasites

16 Aug 2019

Coprolites from the Must Farm archaeological excavation in East Anglia shows the prehistoric inhabitants were infected by parasitic worms that can be...

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The two 31,000-year-old milk teeth found at the Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site in Russia which led to the discovery of a new group of ancient Siberians

DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians

05 Jun 2019

Two children’s milk teeth buried deep in a remote archaeological site in north eastern Siberia have revealed a previously unknown group of people...

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Britain from the Air: 1945-2009

21 Feb 2019

Aerial photographs of Britain from the 1940s to 2009 – dubbed the ‘historical Google Earth’ – have been made freely available online.

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Six Cambridge academics elected to prestigious British Academy fellowship

20 Jul 2018

Six academics from the University of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.

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One of the three Mesolithic deer skull headdresses from the new exhibition

Mysterious 11,000-year-old skull headdresses go on display in Cambridge

21 Jun 2018

Three 11,500-year-old deer skull headdresses – excavated from a world-renowned archaeological site in Yorkshire – will go on display, one for the...

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Two of the four possible combinations of ancient admixture highlighted by the researchers.

First Peoples: two ancient ancestries ‘reconverged’ with settling of South America

31 May 2018

New research using ancient DNA finds that a population split after people first arrived in North America was maintained for millennia before mixing...

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Ancient genome study identifies traces of indigenous “Taíno” in present-day Caribbean populations

19 Feb 2018

A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called “Taíno”, the first indigenous Americans to feel the full impact of...

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The skeleton of the teenage girl, and the remnants of her burial, as discovered by Cambridge University archaeologists in 2011.

Trumpington Cross goes on display for the first time

01 Feb 2018

Extremely rare, early Christian gold cross, gifted to Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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