This year’s Top 10 Discoveries reach us from vastly different cultures and across eons. Some raise new questions about what it means to be human and what separates us from our species’ relatives.

The Egtved Girl's burial(Courtesy The National Museum of Denmark) In 1921, the well-preserved remains of a young woman who died around 1370 B.C. were discovered in an ...

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