Archaeology

The via dell’Abbondanza while it was first being excavated (left) and how it looks a century later. The project was
one of the first major archaeological digs to be photographed in painstaking, step-by-step detail.

What can the streets of Pompeii reveal about daily life in ancient Rome?

A gear wheel in the Antikythera mechanism, an analogue computer created by ancient Greeks that forms the basis for the Archimedes Dial in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

General History

The real Archimedes Dial? The Antikythera mechanism explained

Photo of Hiram Bingham

General Early Modern

How a proto-Indiana Jones rediscovered the Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu

Indiana Jones

General History

Was there a real Indiana Jones?

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

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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 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Miles Russell at Stonehenge alongside archaeologists Timothy Darvill and Geoffrey Wainwright

My life in history Dr Miles Russell, archaeologist . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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)

Tutankhamun The Egyptian boy who really discovered the Boy King . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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.

Britain’s greatest archaeological discoveries . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The pyramid of Chephren, the access tunnel discovered by Belzoni in 1818. (Photo by Getty Images)

Tomb raider: the great Giovanni Belzoni . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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?

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

Raising the Mary Rose The quest to save Henry VIII's lost warship . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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