Meet The Ancestors
Meet The Ancestors is a TV show on BBC4. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 4 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in February 2026.
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Meet The Ancestors
Archaeologist Julian Richards follows the scientific trail of the skeletons of a woman and three young children uncovered at a Stone Age temple in Dorset.
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Archaeologist Julian Richards joins an excavation team as they uncover a rare find from a fourth-century Roman cemetery in Winchester: a lead coffin.
Archaeologist Julian Richards visits a team working on one of the most impressive Anglo-Saxon graveyards ever discovered, on a US air force base in Suffolk.
Series 5
Life on the WWI front line is pieced together as archaeologists unearth a complex trench system, military hardware and personal artefacts near Ypres.