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In June 2000, the world media gave extensive coverage to the flooding of the Euphrates River behind a dam in southeast Turkey. As the waters rose, Zeugma, an important Roman city containing high quality...
CALLEVA documents Reading University’s excavation of Roman Silchester. It features various interviewees including the Field School Director, Amanda Clarke. The film contains video diary entries by...
A series in which modern engineers are challenged to reproduce some of the great monuments of ancient civilisations, using historical research and engineering techniques. 1 (producer Cynthia Page): A team of...
Tours of Teotihuacán, Pompeii, Petra, and four of Crete’s Bronze-Age palaces. Each site includes the complete article from the ‘Scientific American’ anthology ‘Ancient Cities’, plus animations,...
The Grand Tour took many people of taste and wealth to Italy in the 18th century. Antique artefacts brought back from some of these travels form the nucleus of many of today’s museum collections. This...
About the illegal trade in Third-World art treasures, which is sustained by a large and complex international network of smugglers and dealers. Follows a trail of stolen 10th-17th century terracotta statues...
Looks at the restoration of the Portland Vase and tries to solve the puzzle of how and why it was made. Valued at around £3m, the Portland Vase in the British Museum is probably the finest example of Roman...
Covers the 1986 season of the British Museum Excavation project at the 3000-year-old Bronze Age settlement of Runnymede Bridge and the subsequent laboratory work on the finds.
In Red Bay, Labrador, in 1978, a Basque whaling ship dating from the 16th century was discovered in water only dozens of feet deep. The discovery meant that Basque fisherman had whaled off the coasts of...
Based on the archaeological dig outside Xian in 1974 which unearthed a 6000-strong life size terracotta army and the tomb of Qin Shi Huang Di, the first Emperor of China. Tells the story of his reign....
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