A remarkable Roman burial has been found at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, UK. When we lifted the lid off a three tonne stone coffin we were surprised to discover that the coffin had not filled with soil. Instead, we found ourselves looking down on the skeleton of a woman who was cradling a young child in her arms. Find out more at http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/wiltshire/boscombe/preserved-roman-remains/index.html A slightly longer version can be seen at http://vimeo.com/601226

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Date: 2008-04-19

BAJR supports the Diggers Forum will you? Join the Campaign for a living wage

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Date: 2008-05-22

Based on an article talking about the archaeological community complaining Indy was inaccurate. Thanks and Credit ( http://www.petercoffin.com/ )

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Date: 2008-05-25

A lego animation to comic Eddie Izzard talking about Hanibal's elephants and his attack of Rome. If you like this video, you can find more Eddie Izzard lego animations on You Tube from the originator, and a Eddie Izzard paper animation at this URL. http://www.youtube.com/user/Thorn2200

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Date: 2008-04-18

BBC Reportage provides the startling truth about the Sphinx.

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Date: 2008-07-30

Made for the Extreme Filmmaker 48-Hour film contest, Fish Guys was shot and edited in 48 hours. Based on a true story, the video was shot in the Fish Collection at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. This is a cult classic for archaeologists and lab people! <br> <br> See more here: <a title=" Trey Stokes website" href=" http://www.treystokes.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Trey Stokes.. the guy behind this film</a>

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Date: 2009-02-01

On September 24, 2007, it was announced that a team of Egyptian archaeologists led by Zahi Hawass, discovered eight baskets of 3,000 year old doum fruit in the treasury of Tutankhamun's tomb. Doum comes from a type of palm tree native to the Nile Valley. The doum fruit are traditionally offered at funerals. Fifty clay pots bearing Tutankhamun's official seal were also discovered. According to Dr Hawas, the containers probably contained money that were destined to travel with the pharaoh to the afterlife. He said the containers will soon be opened. The objects were originally discovered, but not opened or removed from the tomb, by Howard Carter. King Tutankhamun still rests in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, in a temperature-controlled glass case. On November 4, 2007, 85 years to the day since Howard Carter's discovery, the actual face of the 19-year-old pharaoh was put on view in his underground tomb at Luxor, when the linen-wrapped mummy was removed from its golden sarcophagus for display in a climate-controlled glass box. This was done to prevent the heightened rate of decomposition caused by the humidity and warmth from tourists visiting the tomb. Tutankhamun body has been shown in public form the 1st time in more than 3,000 years. This short clip was taken from BBC News 30th October 2007.

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Date: 2008-05-13

Find out why ancient shipwrecks remain preserved and intact in the basement of the Black Sea unlike any other place in the world. Travel deep into the sea's dead zone using remote operated vehicles. Discover why Bob Ballard, the famous oceanographer, sought a partnership with the Institute of Classical Archeology (ICA) at The University of Texas at Austin, subsequently hiring graduate research assistant Dan Davis to his crew. Underwater footage courtesy of the Institute for Exploration. <br> <br> Find out more here <a title=" " href="http://www.utexas.edu/research/ica/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Institute of Classical Archaeology </a>

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Date: 2008-11-12

Patrick Stewart introduces the new Hadrian exhibition at the British Museum. http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/future_exhibitions/hadrian.aspx

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Date: 2008-07-06

Ephemera, made in 2004 by Sean Caveille, is a short film about the popularity of archaeology/history programmes on TV. At the time, new quick-paced series like Extreme Archaeology (Channel 4) and Hidden Treasure (BBC 2) were desperately trying to capture new viewers by turning archaeology into that most dreaded of adjectives - 'sexy'. Four years later and the BBC are trying to do the same thing again with Bonekickers... Ephemera has a distinctive visual style which is achieved through placing the importance back upon the archaeology itself: once the interviews were filmed and edited, they were video-projected onto prehistoric West Kennet long barrow and re-filmed. More about this can be found here: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/video/ephemera-about.htm The director’s website: http://www.timesequence.com/

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Date: 2008-07-30

Dr Who points and laughs at archaeologists - well... he is a Time traveller

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Date: 2008-06-09

Regia Anglorum are a viking /saxon reenactment group in the UK, this is their promotional video. Find out more about them here: http://www.regia.org/

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Date: 2008-04-18

Trailer for audiovisual film at National Trust For Scotland's new Culloden Battlefield Experience. A dramatic reconstruction of the Battle of Culloden, the last battle fought on British soil on 16th April 1746 between the Jacobite supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie and The British Army of George II. Directed by Craig Collinson ; Produced by Nobles Gate.

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Date: 2008-05-09

An early webcam (the first at an archaeological excavation?) was installed at an excavation on an important Romano-British burial site (ca 60AD) west of Colchester. The area is now a gravel pit. It is possible the site was visited by the Emperor Claudius following the Roman invasion of AD43. This is a sequence of archived image sets from the webcam, together with diary entries from when they could be downloaded from an active website. For more information, see 'City of Victory', Philip Crummy, Colchester Archaeological Trust, 1997. ISBN 1 89771905 1. The webcam and associated software were set-up by staff of the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering (now Computing and Electronic Systems) at the University of Essex. http://uk.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=james9149

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Date: 2008-09-02

Released: June 2008 Avertiser: T-MOBILE Agency: Saatchi ; Saatchi London Country: United Kingdom Credits: T-Mobile ad, created by Saatchi ; Saatchi, in which archaeologists on a dig are looking for 'more minutes for £30'

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Date: 2008-07-01

Reclaiming archaeology for the powers of good. Check out my Youtube account for updates and blogs on other topics! (http://www.youtube.com/user/GirlArchaeologist) Rate, link, comment, think... :)

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Date: 2008-11-27

A life without television. A life without media. A life without Playboy Magazine. This caveman finds another way to deal with the lack of gorgeous models; he creates his own porn movie by running alongside the cave wall, blinking...

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Date: 2008-10-23

Archaeologist and Presenter James Balme was joined by Time Team in 2006 to dig a site in Cheshire that James had been investigating for many years. During the making of the programme Phil Harding gave an exclusive interview about the site and the results of investigations over the three days. Listen to this interview and see some of the footage of Phil shot by James during the three day dig. http://www.jamesbalme.co.uk/

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Date: 2008-07-19

This is the Minelabowners.com being filmed at our Rally that we have every year at Corfe Castle. We at Minelabowners were very please to have been asked to take part in the making on this, This has been a bench mark for both detectorists ; archaeologists working side by side recording History as it comes out of the ground on land ; in water, it just shows that we can work together with top results.You can see the making of this Programme by MMA for the BBC in Photos taken me ; put to music it can be found on here on Youtube under the heading Minelabowners on BBC TV

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Date: 2008-04-19

A demonstration by M. Leon Coutier, archaeologist and former President of the Societe Prehistorique Francaise, of his technique for making replicas of Palaeolithic tools and weapons, including hand-axes, scrapers, gravers and flint arrowheads. Filmed at the former Institute of Archaeology, Regent's Park, London in June 1947. An important archeological record. 2 segments.

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Date: 2009-05-30