Meet the Ancestors - Season 5

Meet the Ancestors - Season 5

Season 5

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Episodes6
DatesFeb 19, 2002 - Feb 26, 2002
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Episodes

Lost Palace of Hampton Court
Season 5Episode 130 min

Lost Palace of Hampton Court

Richards joins a team as they start to dig within the walls of Hampton Court Palace for evidence to support the assistant curator's theory that the original palace built by Cardinal Wolsey, largely obliterated by Henry VIII, may have Italian Renaissance roots, thus making it one of the most significant buildings in English architectural history.
Slave Island
Season 5Episode 230 min

Slave Island

Richards investigates how the 1991 discovery of a forgotten burial ground in Manhattan shed new light on the history of slavery in America. Archaeological evidence has exploded the myth that New York had always been a 'free' state, revealing the crucial role played by African-Americans in the city's development and prosperity.
Celtic Causeway
Season 5Episode 330 min

Celtic Causeway

Richards looks at how the discovery of the remains of an ancient trackway in the fenlands of Lincolnshire has thrown new light on the rituals of the Iron Age. Made of wooden posts some five metres long, the track ran over marshy ground to the open water and was no ordinary thoroughfare. This was a place were the Celts went to worship their deities.
Mar 27, 2002
Chariot Queen
Season 5Episode 430 min

Chariot Queen

Richards investigates the discovery of a grave containing the body of tallest Iron Age woman ever found in Britain and a dismantled chariot, a find which caused great excitement and speculation among archaeologists. Initial theories suggested the woman must have been a Celtic princess, but the realisation that the carriage was intended for battle led experts to conclude they must be the remains of a warrior queen similar to the celebrated Boudicca.
Feb 19, 2002
The Forgotten Battlefield
Season 5Episode 530 min

The Forgotten Battlefield

Richards pieces together the story of life on the World War I front line as amateur archaeologists unearth a complex system of trenches, an exceptional array of military hardware and an astonishing collection of personal artefacts either forgotten or discarded at the end of the conflict.
Mar 5, 2002
Malaria and the Fall of Rome
Season 5Episode 630 min

Malaria and the Fall of Rome

Richards and the team visit an archaeological site where the bodies of 47 babies and children were recently excavated. The discovery that the youngsters died from malaria has given rise to the theory that the fall of one of history's greatest empires was in part due to an epidemic : so when a fleet of Roman cargo ships are discovered deliberately sunk in mysterious circumstances at a site in Sardinia, the experts arrive hoping to find conclusive evidence.
Feb 26, 2002

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