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Revealed: face of ‘ordinary poor’ man from medieval Cambridge

20 Mar 2017

New facial reconstruction of a man buried in a medieval hospital graveyard discovered underneath a Cambridge college sheds light on how ordinary poor...

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Craniotomy of the skull.

The body snatchers: corpse and effect

30 Oct 2012

Corpses sold for dissection by body snatchers helped improve understanding of how the human body worked, according to a new book that brings together...

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fox

Was the fox prehistoric man’s best friend?

31 Jan 2011

Early humans may have preferred the fox to the dog as an animal companion, new archaeological findings suggest.

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