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Digging for the Bible: 10 key discoveries from the Holy Land
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The destruction of Pompeii
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Power plays and scheming queens: the ancient history behind Game of Thrones
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Ashurbanipal ‘the Great’, the Lion of Assyria
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Remarkable women through history
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