The aramaic inscription on the ancient limestone burial box says simply, "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." Unveiled a year ago, those few words on a prosaic 2,000-year-old ossuary launched a ...

Mirabile dictu, as the Romans no doubt said when they dug up three wooden crosses under a temple of Venus in Jerusalem, thus inventing archaeology. Call me a desiccated fossil but I quite like it when ...

Ready to watch Archaeology: A Secret History? This 2013 Documentary series is available to watch right now. It's currently streaming on BBC Select Apple Tv channel and Britbox Apple TV channel. Stream ...

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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 ...

Hence what might be considered overdue: a telly history of archaeology. This being telly history, it is naturally called Archaeology: A Secret History. In which “secret” seems to mean “not a lot of ...