i believe that Gender division was a recent development in human cultural evolution.

William Shakespeare had help writing. His collaborator was playwright John Fletcher. Researcher Plecháč found using machine-learning techniques that parts of plays were written by Shakespeare and other parts by Fletcher - who wrote "Monsieur Thomas", "Valentinian", "Bonduca" and "The Woman's Prize".

Beneath the turquoise waters of Lake Ohrid, the "Pearl of the Balkans", scientists have uncovered what may be one of Europe's earliest sedentary communities, and are trying to solve the mystery of why it sheltered behind a fortress of defensive spikes.
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Up to 50,000 coins from the 4th century discovered off of Sardinia.

Archaeologists exploring the waters off the Italian island of Sardinia have discovered a cache of between 30,000 and 50,000 coins dating back to the first half of the 4th century.

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Kyivan Rus: The First East Slavic State

Centuries before Russia or Ukraine raised arms against each other, Scandinavians went to Novgorod before moving on to Kyiv.

Kyivan Rus rose established in the 9th century became Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.
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Excavations at the medieval Beaumont Abbey in France have revealed nearly 800 years of history before the French Revolution shut it down.

Excavation has revealed over 1,000 burials and a 1,200-year-old village underneath the building.
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Archaeologists decode secrets held within Scotland's oldest manuscript.

The ancient monastery associated with creation of Book of Deer, Scotland's oldest surviving manuscript, has finally been unearthed after its precise location was identified.
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Magnet fisherman pulls a 1,200-year-old Viking sword out of a river.

Trevor Penny was using a powerful magnet to look for metal objects in the River Cherwell near Enslow in Oxfordshire when he made the fascinating find, dated to around 850 AD.
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