On the eve of World War II, a self-taught English archaeologist, working at the behest of a Suffolk widow with a curiosity about what lay beneath several earthen mounds on her property, made what is ...

The Dig has plowed through Netflix viewers this weekend, and everybody’s talking about it. This British drama reimagines and adds spirit to the seemingly dull 1939 excavation of an ancient ship burial ...

It may seem unexciting to watch a movie about an archaeological dig that isn’t “Indiana Jones.” Yet, with the truly incredible names on the cast list for “The Dig” — Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan, and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In 1939, when the majority of The Dig is set, Pretty was 56, five years ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rob Salkowitz is an Eisner-nominated comics journalist and author. Knowing that war would disrupt the exploration, archeologists ...

In 1939, a 7th century Saxon ship was uncovered at Sutton Hoo, the Suffolk property of Edith Pretty. The discovery of this ship would transform modern understandings of early medieval England, ...

IF BRITAIN’S PRIME MINISTER and his fellow Brexit-supporting politicians appear to be fixated on the second world war, the same could be said of Britain’s film producers. In the past few years, “The ...