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Bronze Age

The engine houses of Botallack mine in Cornwall

A visit to Botallack Mine, Cornwall

(Image by the British Museum)

Scythians: the art of war

Photo of pipe and tobacco

Q&A Did people smoke anything before tobacco was discovered?

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Michael Wood

Clock gears in motion

Q&A Why are there 24 hours in a day?

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Revealed: Racton Man was Bronze Age warrior chief

Diorite stela inscribed with the laws of King Hammurabi of Babylon, around 3,800 years ago. Hammurabi sits enthroned at top of the stela. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Q&A Who first attempted to regulate medicine?

A reconstructed round house at Flag Fen, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. (Alamy)

History Explorer: Life in the Bronze Age

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The North Sea and Bronze Age remains

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Could this be the skeleton of a Bronze Age king?

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Middle Bronze Age skulls and arrowheads discovered in Cambridge

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Iron Age fort and Bronze Age burial mounds uncovered in New Forest

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Researchers go into battle to test Bronze Age weapons

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General prehistory

Replica Bronze Age boat created

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Queen Matilda