Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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From ancient skulls that rewrote our origins to a 4,500-year-old papyrus that helped build the Great Pyramid, these six incredible objects reveal the 300,000-year journey of Homo sapiens. Travel across continents and millennia with palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi to uncover how our ancestors lived, thought, adapted, and even loved.

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