Looting of Iraq's national museum began on April 10, 2003. At least half of the artefacts taken remain missing and disturbingly, the illegal trade in stolen antiquities has grown in the years since.
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How we found the oldest human fossil ever discovered outside Africa and the Levant.
Are DNA samples today's version of the human skeletons that hung in 20th-century natural history museums? They can provide genetic revelations about our species' history – but at an ethical price.
A mythical Amazonia of lost tribes or lost cities is easy to challenge on a factual basis, but such objections appear rather feeble in the face of the power of cliché.
Each discipline tells us only part of the story. And so the truest picture of prehistory comes from triangulating these independent lines of evidence.
Technology which located Mayan cities has been used to rediscover a southern African city from the 15th century.
Looting of antiquities is a serious problem, but looters are not always just motivated by greed.
Understanding the past requires knowledge that goes beyond modern science.
Mongolia's important historical sites are under threat from climate change and looting - and one exacerbates the other.
One hundred years after a strange and devastating pandemic, researchers comb for clues in dusty libraries, church records and long- forgotten books.
The Franklin River campaign is commonly seen as a green victory; a fight for the right of 'wilderness' to exist. But archaeological research revealing the region's deep Aboriginal history was crucial to it.
Prehistoric humans and their predecessors may have had a very different diet but their teeth suffered in similar ways to ours.
A new BBC series has put Troy back on the map. But how much do we know about this city of legend?
The possible join between the fragments of an ancient epic written in cuneiform in London and Geneva has been speculated for over 50 years.
The discovery of the signature of Christianity's favourite prophet has caused a stir, but what does it mean?
Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, created the world's oldest cave paintings.
Growing grapes and making wine come with a lot of implications about a culture's capabilities. Apparently, Sicily of 6,000 years ago was more sophisticated than archaeologists had given it credit for.
Children in the distant past were put to work early, reveal footprints.
New discoveries are changing archaeologists' ideas about the origins of our own species and our migration out of Africa. This fossil pushes Homo sapiens' African exodus date back by 50,000 years.
Scandinavia was populated by two main migrations, making its first inhabitants more genetically diverse and adapted to harsh climates than those in the rest of Europe.
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Associate Professor and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of New South Wales, UNSW
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Education Manager, Sydney University Museums, University of Sydney
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Research associate, University of Oxford
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Alice Gorman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in archaeology and space studies, Flinders University
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Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology, University of Sydney
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Professor in Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Archaeology & Heritage, Department of History, Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Bournemouth University
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Sessional Lecturer in Anthropology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy, University of Adelaide
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PhD; Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Dean (Research) College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
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Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Bradford
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Anniversary Chair in Landscape Archaeology, University of Bradford
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Reader/Associate Professor in Biological and Forensic Anthropology, University of Central Lancashire
