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Life of earliest known veteran of Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD revealed by ancient tombstone
Roman soldier Lucius Valerius Geminus came from the Alpine foothills of northern Italy, but died in the town of Alchester, Oxfordshire, aged 50. His tombstone is to go on public display for the first time.
Prince William’s Indian ancestry – DNA test reveals secret hidden for 200 years
Prince William will be the first British king with proven ancestry from India, a DNA test has revealed. His rare mitochondrial DNA comes from his 5 x great-grandmother, a ‘dark-skinned native of Bombay’.
16th century ‘selfies’ – remarkable images show Matthaeus Schwarz from infancy to old age 1497-1560
If you think that the narcissistic tendency of taking images of oneself changing over time began with the YouTube generation, think again. Matthaeus Schwarz was doing it almost 500 years ago.
New York owes its skyline to the long lost world of Pangea
A new BBC documentary delves into the foundations of New York’s modern skyscrapers to explore its ancient past.
Mystery of medieval European swords found in a well in southern India
Two medieval European swords have been found in a well in Kerala, southern India. How did they come to be abandoned so far from their point of origin?
Vikings visited ‘densely populated’ part of Canada 1,000 years ago, new evidence suggests
The chemistry of 2 Norse artefacts suggests that Viking explorers sailed from their Newfoundland outpost at L’Anse aux Meadows to Notre Dame Bay, known to be well populated by native North Americans.
African tribesmen recruited to decipher footprints left by Ice Age Europeans
The ancient tracking skills of Namibia’s San Bushmen are being brought to the French Pyrenees to investigate 13,000 year-old footprints left in the Niaux caves by European hunter gatherers.
Climbers follow their ancestors’ 100 year-old footsteps to the top of North America’s highest mountain
The descendants of the first climbers to reach the top of Alaska’s Mount McKinley (locally called Denali – ‘the High One’) in 1913, will this week begin retracing their ancestors’ route to the summit.
Who do you look like? DNA and family resemblance across generations
What genealogist hasn’t felt a thrill unearthing an old photo of a forgotten ancestor with a distinct family resemblance? DNA never forgets. Here are some examples of resemblance across generations.
Ancient Egyptian iron jewellery fell from the stars over 5,000 years ago
Iron discovered in ancient Egyptian beads made around 3,300 BC – almost 3,000 years before the Iron Age – was smelted in outer space and fell to Earth via a meteorite, according to a new study.
2,000 year-old remains of child abuse victim discovered in ancient Egyptian cemetery
Sadly, child abuse is nothing new, as the injuries to a 2 year-old toddler discovered in a 2,000 year-old Egyptian cemetery testify.
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