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.

David Olusoga opens secret government files to show how the Windrush scandal and the ‘hostile enviro...

A documentary that brings to light the extraordinary story of the Sacred Band of Thebes – an elite m...

In 1898, a Minnesota farmer clearing trees from his field uprooted a large stone covered with myster...

For decades, secular archaeologists have regularly announced discoveries that seem to contradict the...

Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in the history of Great Britain and the Commonwea...

Professor Alice Roberts follows a decade-long historical quest to reveal a hidden secret of the famo...

A countdown of the top 40 "Blackadder" moments chosen by cast and crew members, celebrity fans and 1...

Broadcaster Gyles Brandreth travels to the West Yorkshire moors, known as "Bronte Country". It is an...

The story of the Trojan Horse is probably one of the most famous stories ever told: after ten years ...

Two thousand years ago, it was a flourishing city in the middle of what is now a Syrian desert. At t...

Built in 1923, the Flying Scotsman was the first steam locomotive to run at 100 miles an hour and to...

By decoding ancient hieroglyphic texts, Jean-François Champollion gave voice to an enigmatic civiliz...

After 20 years seeking Cleopatra's tomb, archaeologist K. Martinez's search shifts to an underwater ...
In 1970 a storm uncovers an ancient whaling village called Ozette which had been buried some 500 yea...