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Probably showing my age, but nobody has mentioned the 70's "Chronicle"-superb stuff on Sutton Hoo, Swiss lake villages, Chinese waterlogged royal tombs or "Blood of the British" or even the modern Simon Schama series (sorry can't remember name) or "Battlefield Britain", "War Walks", "Civilization" and Jacob Brenovski's "Ascent of Man". For Comedy try "We are History"- the "Boudicca's Chariot" episode is hilarious and filmed on a real site with real archies in on the act and trying to keep a straight face.
For foreign telly I recommend the french "Alexandria project" trilogy and for the Germanic/gothic invasions/migrations I recommend "Sturm ?ber Europe/ Tempete sur Europe".
European TV usually has at least 2 Archaeological or historical programs every night.
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Did anyone catch "Life and Death in Ancient Rome" on Sky last week? Hilarious. Haven't laughed so much at a "serious" programme for ages.
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Also recommend "Ice Mummies" and the various "iceman"-?etzi, (including the non british ones)if possible in chronological order. The best one is BBC "The mystery of the Iceman" which brings the current theories up to date and shows all the **** ups including the infamous hacking the body out of the ice with an ice axe, the various expeditions and institutions who worked in (deliberate????)isolation from each other and who missed important things on the site/body, a superb Mea Culpa from the pathologists who missed the arrow head in his shoulder for 10 years (this would have been found on the X-rays by any archaeologist or paleopatholgist in less than 10 seconds if we'd been allowed to see them), and a British Forensic archaeologist telling us we all need to rethink the entire case (WE DO).
Forgot to mention The Monty Python Sketch about 2 bickering, backstabbing Egyptologists who couldn't agree on which dynasty a pot should be dated. John Cleese had the final word with "You can't posssibly be an Egyptologist you're onl 5 foot 3"
Bizarre sights on TV - a french documentary on Egypt which showed a man and wife US Egyptological couple (Rock Art and Graffiti Specialists- who knew their stuff) who drove around the Western Desert in a chauffeur driven 1920's/30's Rolls Royce Cabriolet dressed in full "Colonial" khakis, riding boots, full Brown leather webbing and pith helmets. The Egyptian driver wore Full Whites and a Fez. The last example of archaeology in the "Grande Style".
Little Tim
