Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,940 playable programmes from the BBC

Archaeology: A Secret History

Episode 1: In the Beginning

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for 6 months

Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past. He begins by going back 2,000 years to explore how archaeology began by trying to prove a biblical truth - a quest that soon got archaeologists into dangerous waters. Show less

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More