Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history

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The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask. By Jacob Mikanowski. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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