Archaeology
Archaeology is a TV show on BBC4. The program has been available since 2023. A total of 3 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2023.
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1:00:00Archaeology
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.