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What Happened To Eyes During The Mummification Process? And Why Sometimes It Involved Onionsancient egypt mummy eyesWhat Happened To Eyes During The Mummification Process? And Why Sometimes It Involved Onionsancient egypt mummy eyes

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How Long Can A Human Hold Their Breath? The New World Record Shows It's Way Longer Than You Thinkwoman free diving underwater

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300,000-Year-Old Skull Shows Neanderthals Lived Alongside Another Ancient Human AncestorHomo Heidelbergensis skull

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300,000-Year-Old Skull Shows Neanderthals Lived Alongside Another Ancient Human AncestorHomo Heidelbergensis skull
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300,000-Year-Old Skull Shows Neanderthals Lived Alongside Another Ancient Human Ancestor

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Very First Humans To Make And Use Tools Imported Their Stones 3 Million Years AgoExamples of Oldowan tools

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Very First Humans To Make And Use Tools Imported Their Stones 3 Million Years Ago

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New Species Of Early Human Lived Alongside The Oldest Known Homo, We Still Don’t Fully Know What Long COVID Actually Is, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.

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New Species Of Early Human Lived Alongside The Oldest Known Homo, We Still Don’t Fully Know What Long COVID Actually Is, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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New Species Of Early Human Lived Alongside The Oldest Known Homo, We Still Don’t Fully Know What Long COVID Actually Is, And Much More This Week

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Orange Crocodiles, New Human Species, And Death By MeteoriteAll the biggest science news stories of the week.

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"Land Of The White Jaguar": 327-Year-Old Letter Leads Researchers To Lost Ancient Maya CityRuins in Sayil, Yucatan, Mexico.

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"Land Of The White Jaguar": 327-Year-Old Letter Leads Researchers To Lost Ancient Maya CityRuins in Sayil, Yucatan, Mexico.
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"Land Of The White Jaguar": 327-Year-Old Letter Leads Researchers To Lost Ancient Maya City

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In Antarctica, Linguists Witnessed A New Accent EmergingA scientists in Antarctica sitting next to a penguin on the ice.

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In Antarctica, Linguists Witnessed A New Accent Emerging

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80,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Suggest Neanderthals May Have Made Projectile WeaponsArrowheads from Obi-Rakhmat

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80,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Suggest Neanderthals May Have Made Projectile WeaponsArrowheads from Obi-Rakhmat
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80,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Suggest Neanderthals May Have Made Projectile Weapons

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Mysterious Inca String “Writing” System Was Surprisingly Used By Commoners As Well As ElitesAn Inca khipu from 1498 CE

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Mysterious Inca String “Writing” System Was Surprisingly Used By Commoners As Well As Elites

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New Species Of Early Human Lived Alongside The Oldest Known Homo Over 2.6 Million Years AgoA reconstruction of the head of an Australopithecus afarensis

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Over 1,300-Year-Old Skeletons Buried In England Had West African RootsThe skeleton of the girl with West African ancestry in Updown, Kent.

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Over 1,300-Year-Old Skeletons Buried In England Had West African RootsThe skeleton of the girl with West African ancestry in Updown, Kent.
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Are You More Likely To Be Killed By An Elephant Or An Asteroid? RFK Jr Pulls Millions Of Dollars Of mRNA Vaccine Funding, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.

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Grizzly Adams: The Wild Truth Behind The Man, The Myth, And The BeardA black-and-white illustration of Grizzly Adams from an old book.

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Dancing Cockatoos, Spider Schlongs, And Will I Be Hit By An Asteroid?All the biggest science news stories of the week.

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Vesna Vulović: The Woman Who Fell Over 10,000 Meters And Miraculously SurvivedA plane is flying in the sky, viewed from below, with a light glint as passes the sun.
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Vesna Vulović: The Woman Who Fell Over 10,000 Meters And Miraculously Survived

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80 Years On, Chilling Photos Of The Hiroshima Bombing Remind Us Why Nuclear Weapons Are TerrifyingAn aerial photo of the mushroom cloud looming over Hiroshima. It is a large thin stalk of cloud with the top starting to bud into the classic shape.
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How Often Do You Really Need To Change Your Bed Sheets?

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The Khamar-Daban Incident Is So Strange It Is Known As "Buryatia's Dyatlov Pass"The Khamar-Daban mountain range.

The Khamar-Daban Incident Is So Strange It Is Known As "Buryatia's Dyatlov Pass"

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"The Fox That Rescued The Storm God": 4,400-Year-Old Sumerian Tablet With Previously Unknown Myth Analyzed For First TimeA close up photo showing cuneiform text on a tablet. The words are made up of different lines cut into the surface as various angles. The lines are often short and taper towards one end.

"The Fox That Rescued The Storm God": 4,400-Year-Old Sumerian Tablet With Previously Unknown Myth Analyzed For First Time

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Humans Were Buzzing On Psychoactive Betel Nuts 4,000 Years AgoBetel nut

Humans Were Buzzing On Psychoactive Betel Nuts 4,000 Years Ago

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4,000-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Handprint Discovered On “Soul House” Tomb Offeringhandprint on the base of an ancient egyptian "soul house"

4,000-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Handprint Discovered On “Soul House” Tomb Offering

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Neolithic Cannibals In Spain Ate Their Enemies As A Form Of “Ultimate Elimination”Bone of human child eaten by cannibals

Neolithic Cannibals In Spain Ate Their Enemies As A Form Of “Ultimate Elimination”

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We May Finally Know Where The "Hobbit" Humans Came From1.5-million-year-old stone tool from Sulawesi

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