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Tourists at Stonehenge

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Stonehenge: a prehistoric tourist trap

A visitor stands on a toppled standing stone at the megalithic structure of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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Battle of Culloden. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Scottish history

A counting of goats and rams in cuneiform script, ancient Ngirsu, Iraq, 2360 BC. (DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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Warwick Castle. (Photo by Olaf Protze/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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12 historical places to visit on the August bank holiday weekend

A view of a calander showing the date, Friday the 13th. (Photo by William C. Shrout/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Old Wardour Castle

Britain’s 7 most amazing ruins

A 15th-century map of the world illustrating a Latin edition of Ptolemy's the 'Geography'. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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12 giant leaps for mankind – from carnivorism to Magna Carta

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Schama on ‘Civilisations’

The Eridge Hunt, Boxing Day 1952. (Photo by REX/Associated Newspapers)

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A brief history of Boxing Day

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The origins of civilisation

Sarcophagus with relief depicting the Calydonian boar hunt, Campanian amphitheatre, Italy, 1st-2nd century AD. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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From dragons to unicorns: finding fantastic beasts in ancient history

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The birth of Eurasia