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The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

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Since being discovered in 1994, Ardi’s 4.4-million-year-old remains have been at the heart of an anthropological debate. To ...

In a remarkable cultural event that revisits humanity’s earliest beginnings in the region, Sheikh Majid Bin Sultan Bin Saqer ...

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