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Amazing Discoveries 1799 to 2011

Lost treasures, places and artefacts dating from just a few years ago all the way back to prehistoric times. There's something incredible about rediscovering what was once lost, isn't there?


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The Tutankhamun Museum Exhibition In 1972

Howard Carter made one of the greatest...

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The World's Oldest Photographs

Finding some of the oldest pictures in the world...

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Iceberg! Remembering The Titanic 100 Years On...

It's been 100 years since the Titanic – a ship...

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The Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone, which turned out to be the key...

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The Lascaux Caves

A group of teenagers and their dog were...

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The Lascaux Caves

A group of teenagers and their dog were...

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The Sea of Galilee Boat

This fishing boat dating from the time of Jesus...

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Ardi

Ardi, or Ardipithecus ramidus is the oldest and...

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L'anse Aux Meadows

The Norse settlement of L'anse Aux Meadows was...

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L'anse Aux Meadows

The Norse settlement of L'anse Aux Meadows was...

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The Uluburan Shipwreck

A research diver is seen holding one of the many...

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The Uluburan Shipwreck

The Uluburan Shipwreck was discovered off the...

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The scale of the Terracotta Army

This photograph shows the sheer scale of the...

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Cleopatra's Palace

French underwater explorer Frank Goddio, at right...

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The Tomb of Philip II of Macedon

A golden wreath and casket, or larnax, which...

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The Tomb of Philip II of Macedon

Archaeologists stand by a tomb found earlier this...

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The Terracotta Army Pit

Life-sized sculptures of warriors stand upright in...

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The Queen visits the Terracotta Army

The Queen looks down on the excavations of the...

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The Terracotta Army

The vast Terracotta Army was one of the most...

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The Yonaguni Monument

Footage of divers visiting the Yonaguni Monument

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The Yonaguni Monument

Only discovered in 1987, the Yonaguni Monument was...

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The first picture of a person!

This picture was taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838...

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Cave 4 at "Qumran" in Israel

1/11/1965 : A view of Cave 4 at Qumran in Israel...

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Buddhist Scrolls 1

Delicate fragments of First Century scrolls which...

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Buddhist Scrolls 2

Delicate fragments of First Century scrolls which...

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ART Dead Sea Scrolls

The press had the first look at the copy of the...

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ART Sea Scrolls Rabbi

Rabbi Phillip Greenberg, the Chairman of the...

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A bronze Demy cannon

A bronze Demy cannon, one of the items retrieved...

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Pewter flagan

Pewter flagan retrieved from the 400 year old...

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A collection of bronze and pewter items

A collection of bronze and pewter items retrieved...

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Lifting of the Mary Rose

Craft gathered around the lifting crane and...

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Lifting of the Mary Rose

The scene above the Mary Rose in the Solent off...

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Mary Rose

11th OCTOBER:On this day in 1982 the Mary Rose was...

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Mary Rose

11/10/1982 - On this Day in History - The Wreck of...

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HERITAGE MaryRose

Library filer daTEd 11/10/82 of the Mary Rose...

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Mary Rose inspection

Historian Mr Alexander McKee, who found the wreck...

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Henry VIII's warship Mary Rose

Henry VIII's warship Mary Rose back in an upright...

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Mary Rose wreck in Portsmouth

Jacquie Shaw of the Mary Rose Trust surveys the...

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Attack Luxor

The interior of the Tomb of King Tutankhamun in...

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