The Knights Templar owned vast lands, commanded fleets, and influenced societies. Unravel their mysteries: Holy Grail, Turin Shroud, selection process, codes. Despite their downfall, their legacy lingers. Fact or fiction, can we unveil the truth?
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An awe-inspiring year of archaeological digs with Dr Alice Roberts. Roman finds include an amazing coin hoard and a man buried on a pile of dead animals.
Alice Roberts learns more about mankind's Stone Age ancestors, and travels to Jersey to meet a team hoping to shed new light on the Neanderthals.
Dr Alice Roberts discovers what Britain was like before the Romans as she examines fascinating finds from the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Dr Alice Roberts visits excavations in Orkney and York on the hunt for Viking relics. Finds include an amazing collection of silver and gold.
A newly discovered town in Devon turns history on its head and there's a shocking find by the Thames - almost 100 baby skeletons.
Dr Alice Roberts pays tribute to the Bard, visiting Shakespeare's first theatre in London's Shoreditch and sifting through the poet's rubbish!
In Northumbria, skeletons tell tales of violent death and tenderness, and people curate grave goods in an amazing community project.
Humans are found to have lived in Britain earlier than thought when tools are unearthed in Norfolk, while some of our ancestors' customs are revealed at a dig in Orkney.
Hugh and the team attempt to uncover a Roman fort, connected to Hadrian's Wall, that's buried beneath the back gardens of Benwell in Newcastle.
Hugh and the team search for the remains of a Norman motte and bailey castle in the suburb of West Derby and uncover gems in the residents' gardens.
Can Hugh and the team find the remains of a vanished building in the gardens of the Georgian stately home Beningbrough Hall?
Hugh Dennis and a team of archaeologists are in Devizes, searching for a revolutionary 19th-century prison with a unique design.
In Stretton, Hugh and the team search for prehistoric roundhouses and try to work out when people first made the Staffordshire village their home.
Hugh and the experts attempt to uncover a lost Roman fort connected to the Antonine Wall, buried beneath the gardens of the quiet streets of Falkirk.
Hugh and the team search for a Roman settlement under the back gardens of Florence Road in Maidstone, Kent.
Perhaps the hardest society to crack - Le Cercle goes all the way to the top. Heads of state. Intelligence operatives. Chiefs of industry. Vatican envoys. All have a seat at the table for meetings of the ultra-secret Le Cercle.
Yale's secret society is a pinnacle of the elite. Its members have become Presidents, Supreme Court Justices and heads of industry. To be tapped is to be welcomed into a line of power brokers with the promise of life-long membership.
Is the Illuminati a New World Order? Although the ultimate secret order was disbanded in 1785, some claim this elite group continues to control power. What started as a Bavarian group of revolutionaries has now become the stuff of legend.
The Knights Templar owned vast lands, commanded fleets, and influenced societies. Unravel their mysteries: Holy Grail, Turin Shroud, selection process, codes. Despite their downfall, their legacy lingers. Fact or fiction, can we unveil the truth?
What kind of society includes Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and H.P. Lovecraft as a member? The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn dabbled in the occult. It laid the groundwork for Wiccanism and its members studied alchemy and astral travel.
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