Keyword: archaeological dig

Digging for Britain

8.1

2010

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Dr Alice Roberts visits archaeological excavations around the UK, linking together the results of digs and investigations the length and breadth of the country to build up a picture of the year in British archaeology.

Britain's Ancient Capital: Secrets Of Orkney

7.8

2017

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Neil Oliver, Chris Packham, Andy Torbet and Dr Shini Somara follow the work of archaeologists from around the world who are working on one of Europes largest digs that is reshaping the map of Stone Age Britain.

Britain's Biggest Dig

7.9

2020

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In preparation for HS2, two massive digs uncover fascinating burials, revealing life in imperial London and industrial Birmingham.

The Lost King

6.6

2022

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An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard IIIs remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

The Dig

6.9

2021

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An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938.

March or Die

5.7

1977

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During the 1920s, French Foreign Legion Major William Fosters (Gene Hackmans) unit is protecting an archaeological dig, but the discovery of an Arab sacred burial site prompts the angry Arab tribes to attack Fosters small garrison.

Alien from L.A.

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1988

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A young woman with a childish voice travels to Africa looking for her missing archaeologist father, and stumbles into a strange subterranean civilization.

Scalps

3.6

1983

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A group of archeological students venture on Indian land for a dig. Unfortunately, they release an evil spirit who possesses one of them and starts killing the others.

Specters

4.5

1987

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A mysterious tomb is unearthed in the catacombs under Rome, the contents of which contain evidence of an ageless evil that may once have preyed on man.

The Dragon Pearl

5.3

2011

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Josh and Ling were expecting a boring vacation visiting each of their parents at an archaeological dig in China. But the new friends soon discover theyre right in the middle of an adventure when they find a Chinese Golden Dragon.

The Egtved Girl

6

2018

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The Egtved girl is one of Denmarks most famous burial finds from the Bronze Age. The find provides us with a glimpse into life in Europe of this early time. For the first time, modern technology has been able to reconstruct the itinerary of a prehistoric person - yielding breathtaking results. Egtved in Denmark in 1921: Farmer Peder Platz wants to flatten a hill on his plot of land. In the process he discovers a wooden tree coffin. Platz assumes that it might be an important find and he was to be proven right. The so-called Egtved girl is one of the most famous Bronze Age burial finds. The girls clothes were a sensation at the time: In the young womans coffin, the researchers discovered a short, see-through woolen skirt made of twisted cords and a bare midriff tunic in a sensationally perfect condition. The remains of the girls body, however, were scarce: teeth, nails and hair of the length of 23 cm, which was examined with top-notch methods, yielding in part sensational results. Unlike originally assumed, the Egtved girl was not Danish. The young woman had made a long journey before her death around the year 1370 at the age of between 16 and 18 years. To have made such a long journey during the then dangerous times, the young woman must have been brave, courageous and head-strong. At the time, not any dead person was lavishly buried in a grave mound together with valuable bronze burial objects. What was the girls status in the Bronze Age society? Is it possible that the young woman was a priestess, was she married off, and were trade relations the reason for the young womans long journey across Germany?