Alice M Roberts

The first episode of season three finds the team in the Norwich Castle Museum, to look at new finds and what they mean. Archaeologists discover artifacts that give us an unparalleled glimpse into what life looked like 3,000 years ago, while burial rituals reveal the secrets of Anglo-Saxon childbirth.

Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present this year's most outstanding archaeology from the North of Britain. Sitting in the heart of the Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site-the Ness of Brodgar houses a 5000-year-old temple, at the heart of a sacred landscape, built out of stone over hundreds of years. Then, we catch the unearthing of a Roman altar dedicated to Jupiter that was originally carved in the second century, when Maryport...

A team in Suffolk explores the incredible engineering skills of our ancient ancestors through a lost Stone Age monument while a World War I battlefield in France reveals some of the earliest and most disastrous tank battles in this episode.

In the first episode of season eight, we explore this year's finds in the West of Britain and a secret location in the Cotswolds, with all the hallmarks of high-status Anglo Saxon cemetery, gives up a very precious and fragile artifact.

In this special episode, the team is on the hunt for archaeology from our more recent past as they search for artifacts from World War II. They join marine archaeologists in the Solent as they raise the once-in-a-lifetime find of a Fairey Barracuda dive-bomber.

In this episode, the team investigates Roman Britannia, where finds include the thickening mystery of ninety-seven baby skeletons found by the Thames, a newly-discovered town in rural Devon 's that turns history on its head, and a Roman cult figure buried for 1700 years beneath a fort.

Finds in this episode include new revelations about Britain's own Pompeii, the theater where Shakespeare premiered Romeo and Juliet, and evidence that leads to the location of the Battle of Barnet.

The Anglo-Saxons-they divided our land and heralded the arrival of the Dark Ages. But were they really just barbarians? Dr. Alice Roberts continues her journey through a year of archaeology, visiting the key sites that are throwing light on this most mysterious of periods. She visits the royal seat of power at Bamburgh, Northumbria and sees how the skeletons tell tales of violent death, but also of tenderness. There's a remarkable community project...

In the final episode of season two, Alice goes in search of our elusive Stone Age ancestors. Along the way, she visits the channel island of Jersey where she meets a team of archaeologists hoping to shed new light on the much-maligned Neanderthals. At a natural history museum, Alice comes face to face with the dark side of our Ice Age ancestors when she's met with evidence of cannibalism and the ritual use of human skulls.

In this episode, we join a team as they undertake the largest maritime investigation since the Mary Rose and reveal the extraordinary story of HMS Invincible.