Archaeology
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A look at how attention turned from civilisation and kings to the search for the common man against a background of science and competing political ideologies.
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1:00:00Richard Miles shows how 18th- and 19th-century discoveries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began as empires competed to own the past.
1:00:00Richard Miles goes back 2,000 years to explore how archaeology began by trying to prove a biblical truth, a quest that soon got archaeologists into dangerous water.
August 2013
Dr Miles reaches the 20th century and a new quest, discovering the life of the common man.
How discoveries in the 18th century overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began.
Richard Miles explores how archaeology began by trying to prove a biblical truth.
May 2013
How discoveries in the 18th century overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began.