Chronicle: 1966
Episodes
The Vikings in North America
Jun 18, 1966 · 50 min
Glyn 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
Nimrud: The Story of a Dig
Jul 16, 1966
Professor 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/
Stonehenge: Prehistoric Computer?/The First European
Aug 13, 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
Royal Ship/Royal Palace/Royal Grave
Sep 10, 1966
The buried ship at Sutton Hoo, the possibility of Somerset's Cadbury Castle being Camelot of Arthurian legend, and the Irish burial mound of Newgrange
The Invasion That Never Was.../... And the Last Invasion
Oct 8, 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
The Treasure of Priam
Dec 3, 1966
Heinrich Schliemann's 1873 discovery of the Treasure of Priam at Hisarlik, and its disappearance from World War II era Berlin
The Holy Sailors + The Roman Goose March
Dec 31, 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