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More than 3,000 years ago, the rebel Pharaoh Akhenaten marched his people from Thebes to a desert plain beside the Nile, where a huge abundant city dedicated to the Pharaoh’s new God was built. After 25 years of archeological digging and forensic research the truth is now emerging about the most explosive era in ancient Egypt’s religious history. Was Akhenaten really a benign leader or a ruthless despot?
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Hadrian’s Wall stood as the Roman Empire’s most imposing frontier: a spectacular and complex stone barrier measuring 74 miles long, up to 15 feet high and 10 feet thick. Almost 2,000 years after it was built, Hadrian’s wall is proving to be a magical time capsule, unearthing extraordinary findings which allow us to journey back through time to unlock the secrets of a lost world in minute and graphic detail.
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On 1st July 2007, 65 men and women set off on a extraordinary voyage. Their goal: to sail the world’s largest reconstructed Viking ship from Denmark to Ireland. Their ship, the Sea Stallion of Glendalough is a meticulous reconstruction of a 30 metre longship discovered under the sea. The aim of the voyage is to discover whether they’ve got it right, but that means trusting their lives to a ship designed almost 1,000 years ago.
Off the rocky coast of the Channel Islands of Alderney lies a 400 year old wreck of the only fully armed Elizabethan warship ever found. Timewatch has secured exclusive access to the deep water excavation to learn the secrets of Queen Elizabeth’s mighty Navy.
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This epic features the first dig at the most famous Neolithic monument in the world - Stonehenge - for a generation. The archaeologists hope to find proof that the site was a centre of healing; a pre-historic Lourdes, attracting pilgrims seeking cures for their sickness.
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Author Bella Bathurst goes in search of the Wreckers, those who refused to help sinking ships so that they could plunder cargo. It’s an epic journey that takes her from the Isles of Scilly to the Orkney Islands and uncovers the remarkable dark history of a national crime.
Timewatch:
The Pharaoh’s Lost City
1 x 60’, 2007, SD
Timewatch: Queen
Elizabeth’s Lost Guns
1 x 60’, 2009, SD
Timewatch: The Secrets
Of Hadrian’s Wall
1 x 60’, 2006, SD
Timewatch: Stonehenge
1 x 60’, 2008, SD
Timewatch: Viking Voyage
1 x 60’, 2008, SD
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Timewatch: The Wreckers
1 x 60’, 2007, SD
History