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Archaeology: A Secret History

Episode 3: The Power of the Past

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past. He shows how 20th-century attention turned from civilisation and kings to the search for the common man against a background of science and competing political ideologies. Show less

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