It started with a hunch. Edith Pretty and her husband bought a house at Sutton Hoo, the estate of which contained several large mounds of earth. For years, there had been theories about what might lie ...

Simon Stone’s The Dig, now on Netflix, starring Carrey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes, began its source material excavation in 2006. Producer Ellie Wood had then finished John Preston’s historical novel, ...

The Dig is the latest movie released by Netflix, which is a dramatic retelling of the Sutton Hoo archeological discovery of the late 1930s, which saw amateur archeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) ...

Arriving in a winter that’s bleak for reasons that stretch beyond the cold, gloomy weather pervading some of the country at the moment, “The Dig” gets a bump for its myriad gorgeous images of the ...

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A suitcase belonging to the landowner who played a prime role in the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial ship gives an insight into her "status and character as a woman in Edwardian England". Sutton ...

In the months between May and September 1939, as Britain edged closer to the growing threat of war with Germany, the residents of Sussex, in the Southeast of England were captivated by the events of ...

Age is apparently nothing but a number to Netflix. The streaming giant is under fire for casting 35-year-old Carey Mulligan to play a 56-year-old character. The 2021 Golden Globe nominee for ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

Arriving in a winter that’s bleak for reasons that stretch beyond the cold, gloomy weather pervading some of the country at the moment, “The Dig” gets a bump for its myriad gorgeous images of the ...