Chronicle
Chronicle is a BBC Television series shown monthly and then fortnightly on BBC Two from 18 June 1966 to its last broadcast in May 1991. Chronicle focused on popular archaeology and related subjects. The best remembered episodes of Chronicle were "The Lost Treasure of Jerusalem...?", "The Priest, the Painter and The Devil" and "The Shadow of The Templars". These were presented by Henry Lincoln who later went on to write Holy Blood Holy Grail with Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh. The BBC have made some editions available online
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- Ep 1
1.The Vikings in North America
18-06-196650mGlyn Daniel, Magnus Magnusson and Gwyn Jones discuss the evidence for possible Viking travels to North America in the wake of the 1965 publication of the Vinland Map. Magnusson exa...
- Ep 2
2.Nimrud: The Story of a Dig
16-07-1966Professor Max Mallowan along with Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Dr R. D. Barnett and Gordon Waterfield present findings from the excavation of the one-time Assyrian capital city of Nimrud/...
- Ep 3
3.Stonehenge: Prehistoric Computer?/The First European
13-08-1966• Professor Gerald Hawkins's theory that Stonehenge was used for astronomy. • Dr. John Napier and Professor Kenneth Oakley discuss the Vértesszőlős skull, and claim it to be homo...
- Ep 4
4.Royal Ship/Royal Palace/Royal Grave
10-09-1966The buried ship at Sutton Hoo, the possibility of Somerset's Cadbury Castle being Camelot of Arthurian legend, and the Irish burial mound of Newgrange
- Ep 5
5.The Invasion That Never Was.../... And the Last Invasion
08-10-1966• General Sir Brian Horrocks on the fictional 1875 Battle of Dorking Gap and its effect on the popular imagination. • The Norman Conquest of England as shown by the Bayeux Tapestr...
- Ep 6
6.London's Burning
05-11-1966The Great Fire of London of 1666
- Ep 7
7.The Treasure of Priam
03-12-1966Heinrich Schliemann's 1873 discovery of the Treasure of Priam at Hisarlik, and its disappearance from World War II era Berlin
- Ep 8
8.The Holy Sailors + The Roman Goose March
31-12-1966• The evidence for pre-Norse settlement of Iceland by Irish monks. • Ancient Rome's best geese were reputedly sourced from northern Gaul. Daniel, aided by Olympic gold medalist An...
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