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Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez
Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez Episodes
Series 1: 3. The Olmec Heads
Janina Ramirez travels to Mexico, where, just before the outbreak of WWII, American husband-and-wife explorer team Matthew and Marion Stirling were lured into the jungle by the ...
24-02-2024
BBC 2
Series 1: 2. The Lion Man
The Lion Man takes Nina deep into the dark heart of Nazi Germany, where in a remote cave in late August 1939, archaeologist Robert Wetzel came across the 40,000-year-old artwork ...
17-02-2024
BBC 2
Series 1: 1. The Sutton Hoo Hoard
Janina Ramirez explores the surprise discovery in a Suffolk garden of the Sutton Hoo Hoard – an incredible Anglo-Saxon ship-burial dating from the early 7th century AD and ...
10-02-2024
BBC 2
Tutankhamun’s Secrets
On the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's treasure-packed tomb, Dr Janina Ramirez turns detective and heads to Egypt to uncover the real story of how a Briton c ...
04-01-2024
BBC 2
Series 2: 3. World's First City
Janina is in Turkey, tracking a young explorer who found the world’s oldest city and rewrote the beginning of civilisation – until his reputation was destroyed by a ...
26-11-2022
BBC 2
Series 2: 2. The Viking Ship
Janina is in Scandinavia, investigating the lost thousand-year-old ship that transformed the fierce reputation of the Vikings and became a symbol of a nation's fight for freedom.
22-11-2022
BBC 2
Series 2: 1. The Minotaur's Palace
Janina is in Crete on the trail of the millionaire who discovered the mythical palace of the Minotaur and the first western civilisation, but who is now mired in controversy.
12-11-2022
BBC 2