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Archaeology: A Secret History

Episode 2: The Search for Civilisation

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for 4 months

Richard Miles shows how 18th- and 19th-century discoveries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began as empires competed to own the past. Show more

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