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A testament to the power of the First Polish Republic - the royal palace of Villa Regia, a pearl of 17th-century Warsaw architecture, rested for centuries at the bottom of the Vistula. Destroyed by the Swedes during the Deluge, it was considered irretrievably lost for years. 350 years after these events, a group of daredevils decided to find the lost treasure. They undertook an undertaking without precedent in Polish and European archaeology - they decided to extract an impressive palace from the bottom of the Vistula. How did they know that Villa Regia was stuck at the bottom of the Vistula? What does the work of an archaeologist involve and can it be associated with Indiana Jones? Dr. Michał Przeperski and his guest, Dr. Hab. Hubert Kowalski, an archaeologist from the University of Warsaw, talk about all this in today's podcast. The podcast was produced as part of the task: continuation and expansion of the multimedia information and educational project - Portal Historyczny Dzieje.pl