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An animal stepped on a mudbrick while it was still soft and left its paw prints in the clay.

Many Egyptian tombs reveal the trade of the person inside.

In 1977, amateur archaeologists digging at the site of an old Roman fort in Velsen, on the coast of North Holland, uncovered a well.

There are more than 8,000 species of amphibians on Earth, and not one of them lives in the sea.

When the James Webb Space Telescope began photographing galaxies from the universe’s earliest chapters, astronomers ran into a problem.

Beside the airport of Larnaca, on the south-east coast of Cyprus, there is a salt lake.

Between 34,000 and 25,000 years ago, much of Europe shared a way of life that archaeologists call the Gravettian.

Line up human and chimpanzee DNA and the first surprise is how little separates us.

On Tuesday, October 20, a team in southeastern Spain lifted a block of stone out of a wall where it had been sitting for about twenty centuries.

When an electron meets a positron, both vanish.

About 2,000 years ago, while Augustus ruled Rome, a leftover patch of ice in the Canadian Arctic stopped shrinking and began to grow.

In November 392, the Roman emperor Theodosius I signed a law banning every pagan rite, including those performed in private.

In 160 years of digging at Troy, nobody had found anything you could play.

Roman Spain had a network of official roadside stops for officials, soldiers and couriers, yet archaeologists know very few of them for certain.

On a gravel plain in northern Western Sahara, with no shade for miles, there is a heap of stones 54.5 meters (179 feet) long.

In the early 5th century, a woman of high rank was buried beside an old Roman posting station on the Via Augusta, in what is now the province of Castellón.

From the viewpoint at the chapel of San Marcos, it looks like the work of an army of stonemasons.

Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age.

Some 1,900 years ago, a man named Thrasymedes gave a thin sheet of gold to a god who was neither Greek nor Roman.

What do you make of a young child who says they remember being someone else?

The church is Santa Eulalia de Esperante, known in Galician as Santalla de Esperante.

At the narrowest point of the Karmsundet, the channel that separates the island of Karmøy from the mainland on Norway’s west coast, five stones stand upright on a hillside.

In 2006, the Carabinieri, Italy’s national military police, raised the alarm about illegal digging in a forest of oaks and chestnuts near Vetralla, in the province of Viterbo, north of Rome.

If matter and antimatter had come out of the Big Bang in equal amounts, there would be no stars today.

They had crossed most of Persia, climbed snowbound mountains and fought tribes that hurled stones at them from the cliffs.

Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France.

On a patch of bare rock in western Malta, roughly 80 by 100 metres (260 by 330 feet), dozens of parallel grooves cross, overlap and merge into one another.

About 2,200 years ago, someone pressed a finger into a lump of damp clay to stick down the flap of a suit of armour.

In November 1983, the Soviet Union came to believe that NATO might be preparing a nuclear attack.

Around 4,200 years ago, in the dry south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a society began building cities on hilltops, stockpiling grain on a large scale and arming its warriors with halberds (blades like axe heads mounted on long poles) and metal swords.

Thirty-five thousand spectators.

Anyone who wants to build a house on the waterfront at Meria, at the northern tip of Corsica, has to let archaeologists look underneath first.

About 7.4 light-years from the Sun, a dim ball of gas about as wide as Jupiter drifts through space with no star to warm it.

Among the stone tools that early humans left beside a lake in northern Israel, archaeologists found something far bigger: the molar of an elephant, about 8 inches (20 cm) tall and 3 inches (8 cm) wide, lying next to several pieces of tusk.

In 1787, Catherine the Great set off on a six-month tour of Crimea, a territory Russia had annexed only four years earlier.

When we think of Greek mathematics, we think of Euclid, Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga: elegant proofs and general rules.

The Hittite generals posted in western Anatolia (the Asian part of modern Turkey) did not mince words.

When people talk about Neanderthal technology, they almost always mean stone: points, scrapers, flakes chipped from flint.

When we think of Greek colonization, we think of Athens, Corinth or the cities of Euboea, which scattered new settlements across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

In a cave on the Italian side of the Slovenian border, one layer of earth holds the remains of the first farmers.

For more than three centuries, astronomers asking whether the Solar System is stable have received ever more comforting answers.

The Great Sphinx has been without a nose for centuries.

In 2017 the director Christopher Nolan brought Dunkirk back to cinema screens with Dunkirk, a film about the hurried and agonising retreat of the Allied armies from the European mainland in 1940.

A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp.

More than 2,000 years ago, the hilltop where archaeologists are now digging in Sicily’s Valley of the Temples was where the free citizens of Akragas met to decide their city’s business.

Around 3,700 years ago, anyone crossing the great hall at La Almoloya, a hilltop settlement in the Sierra Espuña mountains of southeastern Spain, had to walk over a man.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries.

For decades, one of the oddest spots on the world’s political map was a patch of farmland roughly the size of a soccer pitch.

Each of these tablets fits in the palm of a hand.

Physicists have been asking an awkward question for decades.