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This week's update features the Mitford sisters, Amazon warriors and the lost city of Cambodia.
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* A number of Amazon warriors' names have been revealed amidst 'gibberish' on Ancient Greek vases.
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* The discovery of an enormous tomb at Amphipolis in northern Greece, dating to the time of Alexander the Great of Macedonia, has enthused Greeks, and is a welcome distraction from the dire economic crisis.
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* We always imagine Greek statues to be white marble but the reality is that the statues were painted in extremely bright colours ...
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* The temple of Mithras: how do you put London's Roman shrine back together?
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* Victorian inventions that didn't change the world – in pictures.
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* A day out at the gallows and other bygone photographic oddities.
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* A look at Britain's most visited cities.
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* Eighteen powerful photos of the forgotten indigenous soldiers of the First World War.
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* The Mitfords: six sisters who captured an era ...
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* Wiltshire's 'Neolithic' long barrow burial chamber opens but would you be tempted to be buried there?
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* How lasers revealed a lost city ...
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* Why is the Birmingham accent so difficult to mimic?
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* What would you have done? Terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War and why we’re not as different from the Nazis as we like to think.
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* The Scottish referendum last week certainly caused a stir but the history of the UK Parliament is anything but dull ...
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* A dispute has broken out between an Ecuadorean ministry and the Galapagos Islands over where the preserved body of Galapagos tortoise Lonesome George should be housed.
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* Twenty-one reasons to love and hate museums ...
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* Ten gorgeous quotes from banned books.
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* Is Downton Abbey the best metaphor for the publishing industry?
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* 'Amazon, we want to talk to you about Kindle Unlimited.'
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* Publishing’s holding pattern: the 2014 salary survey.
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* Do we need graphic descriptions in crime fiction?
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* A review of Great French Passenger Ships by William H. Miller.
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?