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In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq ...

The authors sequenced ancient DNA from two naturally mummified female individuals buried at the site of Takarkori, a natural cave-like rock shelter in the Libyan Desert. Decades of study there ...