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1611. King James I investigated Stonehenge "to see 'The stone which the builders refused.'" King James Version, 1611 1616. Doctor William Harvey, Gilbert North, and Inigo Jones find horns of stags and oxen, coals, charcoals, batter-dashers, heads of arrows, pieces of rusted armour, rotten bones, thuribulum (censer) pottery, and a large nail. Long, William, 1876, Stonehenge and its Barrows. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Volume 16 1620. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, dug a large hole in the ground at the center of Stonehenge looking for buried treasure. (D...

CinemaBlend This weekend, HBO will introduce audiences to a new fantasy world with The Nevers, the latest blockbuster series created by Joss Whedon (who left the show last year). Centered around "a group of Victorian women who discover unusual abilities, relentless enemies, and a desire to change the world," as the logline notes, The Nevers will be another genre-bending TV event, particularly with the adult-friendly paid cable company constantly on the search for their next Game of Thrones. Certainly, if the show does well, The Nevers could boost the profile of its notable cast, which inc...

In The Dig, a fictionalised real-life account adapted from a novel, Ralph Fiennes plays Basil Brown, a local excavator with a love for astronomy, who has a reserved outer shell. Replying when spoken to, Basil is a warm-hearted, unflinchingly loyal man of few words who is a genius excavator; his modesty doesn’t allow him to say he’s an archeologist. The real Basil had a mind for academics: he held diplomas with distinction for astronomy, geography and geology through correspondence courses; he had left school at the age of 12 to assist his father who was a tenant farmer (ie a farmer who re...

In Netflix's British drama The Dig, archaeologist Stuart Piggott, played by Ben Chaplin, refers to a brief stop in Malta in 1943 while travelling from Cairo to Algiers. Accompanied by fellow archaeologist Glyn Daniel, the pair spent two “blissful” days on the island, “inspecting megalithic monuments and rock-cut tombs on the island, several spattered with bits of German and Italian aircraft,” as stated by the British Academy’s Roger Mercer in 1998. But, in a post on Facebook, the National Museum of Archaeology says that Piggot was, however, to leave a more significant mark on Malte...