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A Pictish stone carving featuring a salmon

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Image of a medieval skull showing arrow injury

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View of the Norse Buildings, L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, Newfoundland. (Photo by Alamy)

Medieval globetrotters.

Old Norse: Page from the manuscript Codex Regius, which was written in Iceland and contains the poems of elder Edda. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

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British prehistory: everything you wanted to know.

Tourists at Stonehenge

Stonehenge: a prehistoric tourist trap.

The fact that so many cultures have a myth about a devastating flood has led some historians to wonder if there may have been a real event that explains the myths. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

General prehistory

Q&AWas there really a 'Great Flood'?

Medieval trepanning

General prehistory

Q&AWhat is trepanning?

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

12 alternative giant leaps for mankind – from carnivorism to Magna Carta.

A closer look at the Staffordshire Hoard.

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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General prehistory

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In the ninth century Pope Nicholas I decreed that St Peter’s symbol, the cockerel, should be displayed on all churches and many incorporated the design into weather vanes. Pictured here is the St Thomas church spire, Melbury Abbas in Dorset, United Kingdom. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)

Q&AWhat does Jesus have to do with cockerel weather vanes?.

Old Wardour Castle

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Schama on 'Civilisations'.

The origins of civilisation.

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The birth of Eurasia.

The gruesome remains of prehistoric murder victims uncovered in Europe's bogs.

A group of girls taking a bath as part of a contest to see who can wash the fastest.

General prehistory

Q&AHow old is bathing?

Celts special.

A brief history of graffiti and creativity.

Showering, teeth brushing and donning underwear: the strange history of our daily routine.

General prehistory

My favourite place: Ronald Hutton

In picturesStonehenge tourism through history

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Revellers at Stonehenge

General prehistory

Q&ADid the druids have anything to do with Stonehenge?

Clock gears in motion

Q&AWhy are there 24 hours in a day?

Bathhouse

Waking up with Plato: the history of our morning routine.

Revealed: Racton Man was Bronze Age warrior chief