Meet the Ancestors

Warrior

Richards investigates an Anglo-Saxon grave on a U.S. Air Force base in Suffolk, where the remains of a warrior in full b

The Tomb That Time Forgot

Richards joins a team of police officers and archaeologists to investigate the secrets of the past in a Stone Age burial

Living with the Ancestors

Richards and the team visit a couple's home built over a fifth-century graveyard in Winterbourne Gunner, near Salisbury.

The Black Hand

Richards investigates the discovery of a human jawbone in a Chester field, which led to the unearthing of a 12th-century

The Princess and the Pauper (1)

The Princess and the Pauper (2)

Hunter of the Plain

Richards investigates a rare Bronze Age grave on the Army's vast training ground on Salisbury Plain dating from the time

A Family Plot

Richards helps an archaeological team remove three burials locked within a 19th-century vault, as an old cemetery is cle

Princess of the City

Richards investigates the significance of the archaeological dig at Spitalfields where experts have uncovered an elabora

The French Connection

Richards investigates the lives of three men whose remains were found on an island just off the coast of Guernsey to fin

The Domesday Fire

Richards examines the remains of a medieval execution victim discovered in one of 600 graves surrounding a ruined Saxon

The Chosen One

Richards investigates the seemingly bound body of an Iron Age teenage girl found in a rubbish heap in the Cotswold villa

A Roman Plot

Richards explores the stories behind two Roman burial sites excavated in the centre of Bath. He attempts to discover why

The Lost Souls

Richards recruits local schoolchildren to investigate a mysterious burial ground found among the foundations of the Vict

Skeleton in the Crypt: The Pilgrim Trade

Professor John Butler investigates the mysterious disappearance of the remains of murdered Archbishop of Canterbury St T

The Killing Field

Richards investigates a field where a mass of ancient bones was unearthed in 1968. The team slowly piece together eviden

Bishop's Men

Richards investigates a medieval burial site unearthed beneath the walls of Hereford Cathedral that revealed six skeleto

Winds of Change

Richards investigates six Anglo-Saxon graves in the sand dunes near Bamburgh Castle, which could provide an insight into

The Architect, the Clerk and the Money

Richards explores the life of Lawrence Spencer, clerk of works to Christopher Wren during the construction of St Paul's

The Ultimate Sacrifice

Richards contemplates the gruesome fate of a Neolithic woman and three children whose remains were discovered in a Stone

Treasures of the Dark Age

Richards investigates a burial ground in Peterborough unearthing artefacts from first and second-generation Anglians who

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 assistan

Slave Island

Richards investigates how the 1991 discovery of a forgotten burial ground in Manhattan shed new light on the history of

Celtic Causeway

Richards looks at how the discovery of the remains of an ancient trackway in the fenlands of Lincolnshire has thrown new

Chariot Queen

Richards investigates the discovery of a grave containing the body of tallest Iron Age woman ever found in Britain and a

The Forgotten Battlefield

Richards pieces together the story of life on the World War I front line as amateur archaeologists unearth a complex sys

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. T

Our Top Ten Treasures

Adam Hart-Davies profiles the 10 most important treasures ever unearthed in Britain as voted by a panel of experts from

Napoleon's Lost Army

Richards investigates the remains of the soldiers of Napoleon's army, discovered in a mass grave near Vilnius provide a

Desert Rescue

A British team travel deep into the inhospitable Sahara desert to find out what remains of a Hermes airliner forced to c

King of Stonehenge

Richards investigates a grave found a few miles from Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, believed to be the richest Bronze Ag

The Lost City of Roman Britain

Richards uncovers the mysteries of the recently-discovered missing city of Calleva Atrebatum in Hampshire. All that now

Britain's Oldest House

Richards joins archaeologist Clive Waddington and his team as they unearth evidence of Stone Age communities dating back

The Mummies of Cladh Hallan

One of the UK's foremost archaeologists reveals what he claims are the first British mummies ever discovered, dating bac

Nelson's Forgotten Heroes

Nick Slope's investigation into an archaeological dig on a tiny island which may have uncovered human remains connected

Billy and the Fighter Boys

Richards investigates the story of the fighter pilots of No 1 Squadron, who flew their Hurricanes against the Luftwaffe

The Hunt for Darwin's Beagle

Richards follows marine archaeologist Robert Prescott and scientist Colin Pillinger in their bid to find the final resti

The Curse of Oxford Gaol

Richards reports from a dig where human skeletons hundreds of years old were discovered by builders excavating the groun

The Stonehenge Enigma

Richards examines the detective work which has taken place over the past 300 years and gives enthusiasts a clearer under

Journey to Hell

Wilfred Owen's nephew travels to the site of the Heidenkopf in northern France, an abandoned German front-line trench wh