In this special follow-up programme, the only television team with access to the dig and the scientific tests on the skeleton uses unseen footage and conducts two days of additional interviews to tell this extraordinary forensic detective story in even greater scientific and archaeological detail.

England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066), cha...

Recreating festivities from Henry VIII's era, Lucy Worsley dresses, eats, drinks, sings and parties ...

Move over, King Tut: There's a new pharaoh on the scene. A team of top archaeologists and forensics ...

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in Fr...

Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has le...

Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told...

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...
The history of Westminster Abbey and a tour of the monuments within it; accompanied by choral music ...

What killed King Tutankhamun? Ever since his spectacular tomb was discovered, the boy king has been ...

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that...

49,000 year old Neanderthal bones have been discovered by chance in a remote, mountainous region of ...

In northern Peru, the unprecedented archaeological discovery of the largest known mass child sacrifi...

A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing on n...

"The Last Dragon" is a nature mockumentary about a British scientific team that attempts to understa...

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his ...

Archaeologist Raksha Dave and historian Dan Snow return to Pompeii to gain special access to a varie...