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 ...

I have been in this business for a long time. And in that time I have realized many of my professional dreams. But one dream persists. It’s a modest dream, but it is mine: I want to write the liner ...

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 ...

Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan are joining forces in their upcoming film The Dig. The story follows Basil Brown (Fiennes), an amateur archaeologist who is hired by a wealthy widow, Edith Pretty ...

Word of this week’s new movie release, all about archeology, may have quickened the pulses of many action film fans. Perhaps visions of a daring, rugged adventurer escaping insidious death traps, ...

An archeological dig. British accents. The threat of World War II looming on the horizon. Tweed. Johnny Flynn staring intensely at a woman wearing glasses. Anglo-Saxon artifacts… These are just some ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

If you grew up in England, you probably learned about the 1939 Sutton Hoo excavation in school. But for those of us across the pond, The Dig on Netflix has a lot to teach audiences about the true ...

Humankind has led a complicated history. Our legacy sits in balance between horrible bleakness and remarkable beauty, and the weight is continually shifting between these two directions. Netflix’s new ...