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Japanese submarines used against Pearl Harbor to reveal their secrets after 75 years

US scientists will live-stream dive intended to document the wreckage of mini-submarine.

Dinosaurs may have survived extinction events by having a huge range of body sizes

Size variations within a species or genus was very large, which may have made them more resilient to natural disasters.

Remains of 800,000-year-old Stone Age human meals reveal prehistoric eating habits

Palaeolithic humans ate a lot of fruit and veg, as evidence of fruit pips, nuts and seeds found in Israel show.

Ice Age hunters burned down Europe's forests by starting wildfires

This may be one of the earliest examples of humans altering their natural environment.

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Sutton Hoo ship burial reveals we were trading with the Middle East 1,300 years ago

The black organic samples had incorrectly been identified as tar in the past.

Gallery: Gruesome cannibal burials in pictures

Ancient burials in central Brazil suggest corpses were mutilated, defleshed and burnt after death

9,500-year-old burials in Brazil reveal mutilation of fresh corpses and cannibalism

Tooth removal, mutilations and cannibalism were potentially involved in ancient burial practices

Mystery mummified legs belong to Ramses II's favourite wife Queen Nefertari

The remains had been found in the queen's spectacular tomb, but it wasn't clear if they did belong to her.

Iron Age Turks wouldn't be seen dead without Cypriot ceramics at dinner parties

Elite Turkish feasts drove demand for elaborate pottery 3,000 years ago.

Upright-walking early human ancestor Lucy liked to hang out in trees

Lucy probably had a funny walk due to an inefficient gait.

48 skeletons discovered in 'extremely rare' Black Death plague pit – most of them children

The University of Sheffield has discovered a huge burial site at a 14th century monastery in Lincolnshire.

Beautifully crafted glass artefacts appeared in Ancient Egypt earlier than in Mesopotamia

Glass beads and vessels found in Mesopotamia were made later than previously thought, based on Egyptian creations.

Shrine of St Olaf, Viking miracle maker and king, discovered in Norway

Mystery solved as burial place of king Olaf II Haraldsson, beatified in 1031, is dug up

Single-toothed sea monsters haunted imaginations of inland Maya people

Terrifying sea monsters are depicted in 3,000-year-old art from Mesoamerican sites far away from the coast.

Long-lost ancient Egyptian city dating back 7,000 years discovered near Abydos

The discovery was made by Egyptian archaeologists near the city of Abydos.

2,000-year-old pet cats unearthed in Roman graveyard in Egypt

The way the cats were buried suggests that they were well-cared-for pets that died of natural causes.

Extremely rare and ancient 'thinking man' jug discovered in Israel

Vessel dates to Middle Bronze Age and was found alongside daggers, an axe head and arrowheads.

Mysterious ancient rock art unearthed in Jordan's Black Desert

The inscriptions tell the story of how life flourished in the desert 2,000 years ago.

The national animal of U.S. could have been turkey

Native Americans bred turkeys centuries before the 'first Thanksgiving'

Signs of sex-selection and feeding by humans suggest turkey domestication from 1200AD.

Earliest dental prosthesis made of human teeth discovered in medieval tomb

The device provides the first archaeological evidence of a dental prosthesis in the modern period.

Secrets of the Luxor Mummy: What we know about the mysterious temple of Pharaoh Thutmose III

The team who made the discovery has been excavating the temple and the necropolis beneath since 2008.

Autism may have spurred human evolution through logic and detail-based skills

Collaborative morality among hunter-gatherers included people with autism traits, allowing their skills to flourish.

Incredibly well-preserved graves of some of the earliest Christians in the UK unearthed in Norfolk

Skeletons were discovered inside tree-trunk and plank-lined coffins near a wooden structure believed to be a church.

7,000-year-old milk fat sheds light on Neolithic farming – and it doesn't even smell

Fatty molecules found in old Mediterranean milk pots show diary farming as widespread – with Greece as the exception.

Underwater Stone Age settlement a haven for fishing - and yields mysterious elk-antler pick axe

The axe has notches inscribed in it and was thrown in the rubbish when it cracked.

Secrets of ancient amulet's creation revealed after 6,000 years

Researchers have discovered that the amulet is probably the earliest object made with lost-wax casting.

This man was shackled before his burial in an Etruscan tomb 2,500 years ago

The man was probably a slave or a man condemned for an offence.

The Vikings were Norse seafarers who raided, traded and settled all over Europe

Vikings raided Europe because they couldn't marry back home

Access to women may be one of the main reasons why Norsemen raided Europe.

Secret passage discovered under stage at Shakespeare's theatre

Archaeologists unearthed money pots used to collect ticket fees and beads and pins from costumes.

Prehistoric Greenlanders ate bowhead whales to survive 4,000 years ago

DNA analysis reveals how early settlers on Greenland relied on marine mammal meat more than we thought.

What caused the tsunami that destroyed 'Atlantis'?

Volcanic material entering the sea may have caused a massive tsunami off the coasts of Crete.

5,000-year-old city from Akkadian Empire discovered in northern Iraq

Archaeologists find evidence of city wall and a temple dedicated to Mesopotamian weather god Adad.

Man searching for toilet finds 49,000 year-old evidence of earliest Aboriginal settlement in Australia

The prehistoric discovery places humans in the area 10,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Mystery shipwreck emerges from the depths of the Baltic Sea

First evidence suggests the ship roamed the waters of the Baltic Sea in the 19th century.

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