The Power of the Past

3/3 How attention turned from civilisation and kings to the search for the common man.

The Search for Civilisation

2/3 How discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries overturned ideas about our civilisation.

In the Beginning

1/3 Richard Miles explores how archaeology began by trying to prove a biblical truth.

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