Buried Treasure

From the Arts Council exhibition of the Abbé Breuil's reproductions of stone-age cave-drawings. Glyn Daniel and Miles Burkitt discuss when, how, and why man's earliest art came into being.

The Megalithic tombs of Ireland are among the finest prehistoric monuments in Europe. Glyn Daniel and Sean P. O'Riordain discuss the recent excavations at Lough Gur and the light they throw on the domestic life of the builder.

Glyn Daniel and Sir Mortimer Wheeler discuss the discovery last year near Vix in north-east France of a Celtic princess who was buried 2,500 years ago in a chariot surrounded by a remarkable treasure. Film sequences by the Television Film Unit

Glyn Daniel, Professor Stuart Piggott, and Richard Atkinson (of Edinburgh University) discuss the light thrown by recent research at Stonehenge on this most famous and mysterious of British ancient monuments.

Glyn Daniel and Sir Mortimer Wheeler discuss the strange death 2,000 years ago of Tollund Man, and the light it throws on life in prehistoric Denmark.

Glyn Daniel and H. J. Plenderleith show how some of the secrets of the past are revealed.

Glyn Daniel tells the story of one of the most mysterious of the peoples of the ancient world and illustrates their achievements with film specially shot in Italy.

With the help of television outside broadcast cameras Professor Stuart Piggott and Richard Atkinson of Edinburgh University show Glyn Daniel the results of their excavation of the West Kennet Long Barrow, one of the largest and best-known prehistoric burial mounds in Britain.

John Evans discusses with Glyn Daniel the great stone temples of Malta, and Instructor Captain H. S. Gracie, R.N., suggests an answer to the problem of the prehistoric Maltese cart-tracks.

Dr. J. Weiner, of the Department of Anatomy at Oxford University, and Dr. K. Oakley, of the British Museum of Natural History, tell the story of the finding of the Piltdown remains and show Glyn Daniel how one of the most remarkable hoaxes in scientific history was eventually exposed.

Glyn Daniel discusses the mysterious stone rows and tombs of Carnac in Brittany, which make it one of the most spectacular prehistoric sites in Europe.

On the deserted wastes of Dartmoor stand the dwellings and ritual monuments of prehistoric man, who once inhabited the high moor. Lady Aileen Fox, Malcolm Spooner, and Professor Michael O'Kelly tell of excavations and experiments designed to find out more about the way of life of these people.

Recent excavations have shown that Ireland's most famous site is many centuries older than was previously believed. Professor Sean O'Riordain and Professor Stuart Piggott tell Glyn Daniel the story of the excavations.

Presenter Glyn Daniel talks to archaeologists about excavations at Jericho, which have led to the discovery of the oldest city known to man. Discussing footage filmed at the site are Dr Kathleen Kenyon, Director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, who is in charge of the excavations and Sir Mortimer Wheeler who visited the site. Among the archaeologists who have dug there is Lady Wheeler, who is in the studio to discuss dig live at Jericho.

Glyn Daniel, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, and E.W. Marsden of Liverpool University, describe the origin of the great prehistoric hill fort near Dorchester and its dramatic capture by the Romans.

The late Stone Age houses of Skara Brae are unique survivals in Britain. Because there were no trees in Orkney, even their furniture was largely made of stone. It is therefore an exciting place in which to re-create an imaginary picture of the lives of the inhabitants. Glyn Daniel, Brian Hope-Taylor, and Professor Stuart Piggott discuss the controversial points in the film of this reconstruction.

Glyn Daniel and Professor Max Mallowan discuss a film made by the Film Centre and the Iraq Petroleum Film Unit, which records highlights of the great Sumerian and Arab civilisations which grew up on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates.

On a mountain top in the wilds of Eastern Turkey stands a huge mound of stones marking the tomb and temple of Nimrud Dagh. In this film Kermit Goell describes the excavation of this remote and spectacular site.

The Viking ships now preserved at Oslo were some of the finest sea-going craft ever built. Glyn Daniel and George Naish, of the National Maritime Museum, tell the story of the earliest boats in Northern Europe and how they developed into ships that were capable of crossing the Atlantic.

Sir Mortimer Wheeler describes the results of his excavations of the Indus Valley civilization city of Mohenjo-daro in modern-day Pakistan

Between the conversion of St. Patrick and the coming of the Vikings, early Christian Ireland had its Golden Age. Liam and Maire de Paor describe the lives and work of the saints and scholars, the goldsmiths, illuminators and stone carvers who made their country the wonder of the Western world during the Dark Ages.

Deep in the African bush lie the great stone ruins of Zimbabwe, once thought to be the source of King Solomon's gold. Sir Mortimer Wheeler, who recently went there for the first time, discusses this mysterious site, which has aroused so much controversy, speculation, and legend.

25.000 years ago Stone Age man hunted the hairy-coated mammoth through the cold bleak valleys of Central Europe. Glyn Daniel and Dr. C. B. M. McBurney discuss the excavations at Dolni Vestonice, in Czechoslovakia, which throw a vivid light on the home life, the hunting skills and the beliefs of these hunters.

The city of Taxila was the capital of Alexander the Great's Indian Empire. It lies among the foothills of the Himalayas in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and was one of the great meeting places of East and West in the ancient world.

Some four thousand five hundred yean ago a new people reached the British Isles. How they crossed the sea no one knows. This programme is an account of an experimental sea voyage la an Irish curragh, the modern descendant of a Stone Age skin boat, to study the conditions the invaders may have faced.