Photo of the Parthenon in Greece

Archaeology

A model of the face of a Neanderthal woman in front of art depicting a prehistoric environment

General prehistory

When and why did Neanderthals go extinct? Explaining the loss of humanity's ancient siblings

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Roman

Roman pizza, the Black Room, and renovation: 4 incredible things we learned from Pompeii: The New Dig

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Plague, leprosy & murder: unlocking the secrets of medieval bones. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General History

Archaeology’s golden age: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 1948 photograph of the House of Epidius Rufus in Pompeii. The structure had to be rebuilt after being damaged by Allied bombs during WWII (Photo by SuperStock/Alamy Stock Photo)

Roman

How were Pompeii and Herculaneum discovered?

Roman

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 HistoryvideoWas there a real Indiana Jones?

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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)

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Miles Russell at Stonehenge alongside archaeologists Timothy Darvill and Geoffrey Wainwright

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

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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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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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)

Ancient Egypt

5 of the most powerful pharaohs to rule ancient Egypt

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

Ancient Egypt

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

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

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

Medieval

The Lost KingThe 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

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

Ancient Egypt

Rosetta StoneWhat is it and why is it important?

The Rosetta Stone

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Women of the Middle Ages with Janina Ramirez – episode 1

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The statue of Alfred the Great in Winchester set against a blue sky background

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An illustration of fossil hunter Dorothea Bate

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