Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a significant early Christian artefact: a fresco depicting Jesus as the “Good Shepherd,” styled with RomanContinue Reading
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Archaeologists have made a discovery that could challenge everything we know about human development. Footage shows scientists examining an excavation site of a 400,000-year-old pond sediment in Barnham, Suffolk, where they say they found the remains of a campfire. Previously, the earliest evidence of prehistoric humans making fire had beenContinue Reading
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