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Camilla Townsend on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

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Neil Oliver. Television presenter and author Neil Oliver at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 2019 (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)

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Head and shoulders of a sculpted model of a female Neanderthal

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Pectoral ornament in the form of a double headed serpent, Aztec/ Mixtec, c 1400/1521 (Photo by Getty Images)

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Colourised print of the Lighthouse of Alexandria as imagined in the 18th century

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A 16th-century painting of the Tower of Babel

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Stonehenge: Not a henge, but certainly a stone circle, and a very long-lived centre of human activity. (Getty Images)

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A rare jewelled late Medieval cluster brooch,

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A stone believed to have magical properties, including the ability to summon rain, from Laraibina village in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Carved Pictish Stone in the Meigle Museum east of Blairgowrie, Scotland. (Photo by Alamy)

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Pompeii,Italy

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Dan Jones by the River Medway at Rochester in Kent. Jones is the presenter of 'Walking Britain’s Roman Roads', which aired on 1 July 2020 at 9pm on 5Select

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