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Amazing archaeological discoveries that trounce Indiana Jones . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Passengers and crew leap from the Gloucester after the ship is wrecked in 1682, in a contemporary painting by Johan Danckerts (Image by National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London)
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The sinking of the Gloucester: the shipwreck that rocked Restoration England

Miles Russell at Stonehenge alongside archaeologists Timothy Darvill and Geoffrey Wainwright
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My life in history Dr Miles Russell, archaeologist

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The solid gold death mask of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, now held in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (Photo by Fayed El-Geziry/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Tutankhamun The Egyptian boy who really discovered the Boy King

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Machu Picchu History, Rediscovery & Downfall

The remains of the Amesbury Archer (2400-2200BC), a burial found near Stonehenge and about 4300 years old, Salisbury Museum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.
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Britain’s greatest archaeological discoveries 

The pyramid of Chephren, the access tunnel discovered by Belzoni in 1818.  (Photo by Getty Images)
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Tomb raider: the great Giovanni Belzoni

Statue of Ramesses II, at Luxor Temple. He ruled Egypt for 66 years, and left more statues than any other pharaoh (Photo by Michelle McMahon / Getty Images)
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5 of the most powerful pharaohs to rule ancient Egypt

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Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamun: was the tomb really cursed?

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Raising the Mary Rose The quest to save Henry VIII's lost warship

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The Lost King The difficult art of turning a true story into a movie

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Richard III returns . This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.

The skeleton exhumed from beneath a Leicester car park in 2012. The remains contained features matching Tudor descriptions of Richard III, and injuries to the skull and body inflicted at the battle of Bosworth in 1485
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Rediscovering Richard III The story of how a lost king was found

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Rosetta Stone What is it and why is it important?

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The rivalry behind the translation of the Rosetta Stone

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