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Egyptian Mummies' Height Reveals Incest

- New study of Iceman reveals oldest known example of red blood cells

How Nature Can Mummify Your Brain

Bone analysis reveals violent history of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica

- Dental enamel reveals surprising migration patterns in ancient Indus civilizations

San Calocero (Italie): Medieval 'Witch Girl' Likely Just Suffered From Scurvy

- Norton Priory (G-B): Human ancestors could hold the key to early diagnosis of bone disease

Archaeologists to reconsider origins of industrial era obesity and cancer by scanning Museum of London skeletons

Rakhigarhi  (Inde): Haryana Harappans had 'stainless smile'

Gough's Cave (G-B): Palaeolithic remains prove cannibalistic habits of human ancestors

Milk teeth of Irish famine's youngest victims reveal secrets of malnutrition

Julius Caesar may have suffered mini-strokes

Hereford (G-B): Battered Bones of Norman Knight Tell Story of his Life and Death

Lugnano (Italie): Solving the riddle of malaria

Vác (Hongrie): Mummified bodies reveal how tuberculosis ravaged the heart of 18th century Europe

- Caleta Vitor (Chili): A Pre-Columbian population was poisoned

Scaloria Cave (Italie): the transition from living to dead in Neolithic

Jerusalem (Israel): Human parasites found in medieval cesspit reveal links between Middle East and Europe -

Creating a malaria test for ancient human remains

Ancient Africans used 'no fly zones' to bring herds south

Cova do Santo cave (Espagne): Using the Dead to interpret Daily life in Bronze Age

Heslington (G-B): 'Oldest human brain' may have been preserved by mud

Significant facial variation in pre-Columbian South America

- Pharaoh  SenebKay was brutally killed in a battle away from home

Wari Kayan (Perou): Mummy Hair Reveals Ancient Last Meals

Mont Saint Jean (Belgique): L’énigme du squelette

Badia Pozzeveri (Italie): cemetery may provide clues on cholera's evolution

Researchers use isotopic analysis to explore ancient Peruvian life

Richard III Killed by Sword Thrust Upwards Into Neck

Otranto (Italie): Mystery Over 15th-Century Drilled Skull Solved

Malocclusion and dental crowding arose 12,000 years ago with earliest farmers

Science dates old dogs with new tricks

Irkutsk (Russie): Prehistoric Grave May Be Earliest Example of Death During Childbirth

Peruvian child mummy with elongated skull : a “virtual autopsy”

Ancient Siberian brain surgery techniques

Analysis of skull fractures in medieval Denmark reveals increased risk of death later on in life

New tattoos found on Otzi the Iceman support prehistoric acupuncture theory

Huari (Pérou): The life after death of dismenbered remains

- Nashville (USA): New clues to the lives of Grassmere slaves