
Meet the Ancestors
Archaeologist Julian Richards examines a burial ground in Peterborough.

Archaeologist Julian Richards examines a burial ground in Peterborough.

Richards investigates the significance of the archaeological dig at Spitalfields, London.

Julian visits an excavation unearthing a long-lost chapel and the undisturbed burials of medieval landowners.

Jill and Brian Bushnel discover their home is built over a 5th century grave yard.

Follows an excavation team as they uncover a rare find in a fourth-century Roman cemetery.

Julian Richards visits a team working on an Anglo-Saxon graveyard in Suffolk.

Julian Richards joins a team examining the remains of two crouch burials in Bleadon.

Julian Richards investigates a coffin dug up in a rose bed at Malmesbury Abbey.

Julian Richards joins a team excavating a stone coffin from a building site in Bristol.

Julian Richards visits a beach in Donegal where the bodies of several women were found.

Potholers in the Yorkshire Dales stumble upon the remains of human burials.

Dinosaurs are extinguished by an asteroid in prehistoric Idaho.

Dinosaurs thrived during springtime when ferns and evergreens reappeared in the polar forest.

Prehistoric flying reptiles.

Large marine reptiles command the seas during the late Jurassic period.

Colorado was once a desert home to dinosaurs.

The life of the first reptilian carnivores on Earth, told through computer animation.

It may come as a surprise that we're living with many of the reptiles that survived the great extinction.

A documentary following the investigation of a 4,000-year-old body found preserved in a bog.

Marguerite makes a dangerous deal for safe passage off the plateau.