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National Geographic Explorer Peter Campell provides an inside look at the early stages of a heritage crime investigation.

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An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds. In the grave, ...

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