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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)

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

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)

Tutankhamun The Egyptian boy who really discovered the Boy King

Photo of Machu Picchu

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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)

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)

5 of the most powerful pharaohs to rule ancient Egypt

Egyptologist Howard Carter crouches near the golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun's remains

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

Mary Rose being risen from the sea (Picture by Alamy))

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

Harry Lloyd (Richard III) and Sally Hawkins (Philippa Langley) in The Lost King

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

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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

Rediscovering Richard III The story of how a lost king was found

The Rosetta Stone is covered in three scripts, which allowed for the translation of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

Rosetta Stone What is it and why is it important?

The Rosetta Stone

The rivalry behind the translation of the Rosetta Stone