Phil is my favorite: his devotion to his work intrigues me and encourages me to continue to encourage his efforts. My most important issue is to, somehow, meet Mr. Phil.
Paul Blinkhorn is the one who amazes me the most. Show him any 3 centimeter piece of pottery and BAM he nails it without blinking, often down to where it was made. ;-)
Stephen Donaldson wrote a great series called the chronicles of Thomas’Covenant. The main character was a leper and opened my young mind decades ago, to what leprosy was like. Highly recommend. May re -read
I love it when she says "this is only 2 or 3 hundred years old". I have never seen a building or anything over 120 yrs old. Well there is the white house but it is only the bricks that are 250 yrs old. I'd pee my pants to see something 500 yrs old and that is nothing to them.
Leprosy is still around yes, but it is still history as leprosy isn't the epidemic/pandemic levels it was in ancient times and the only way most people will learn about it is through things like archaeology, historical documents, medical records,etc. of the time it was a big problem plus any information gained from modern cases. The black plague is still around too, but in order to actually learn about what it was and how it affected the areas it took a strong hold in is to study history through archaeology or documents. The reason modern cases can't tell us much about it in history is because the modern cases are treated with the techniques developed over the centuries of study of the diseases, modern cases can tell us the causes and what treatments work, but they can't tell us about the effects of it on individuals (unless it was left to run its course on the individual) nor spreading in a large population, only history can tell us this.
@@Skyfire_The_Goth all that is true but within the last 20 or 30 years the numbers have gone down significantly from over 5 million to merely a few hundred thousand, but there are still people suffering from it, that are not getting treatment or are undiagnosed
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 No longer endemic in the UK although you may be surprised that between 2003 and 2012 there were 139 cases in the UK reported to Public Health England and there are still around 210,000 new cases diagnosed worldwide every year. Leprosy still affects people in over 100 countries
@@forfarlassie how can it be "undiagnosed" when it has characteristic lesions and bumps? Furthermore, how can you be so sure that it's a problem, if so many are undiagnosed? Leprosy is easily cured, and spread by airborne means. Maybe if nasty ass people washed their hands, and covered their faces when they cough and sneeze, they wouldn't be in that situation? Wait a minute, that sounds an awful lot like something we're dealing with now!🤦♂️
I get an uneasy queasy feeling when the team digs up an old grave. Those deceased friars and monks thought that their resting place was for eternity. & 'Yes I'm Catholic and still believe in God.
Um, you do realize that "viking" is a verb, right? We called ourselves Danes, Swedes, or simply Norsemen/Nords. If you're going to try and pontificate about obvious crap, at least be accurate.
@@andreasegde no it isn't you ignorant gobshite. The Norse would "go a viking". It's a verb that translates to "raiding". It's a word from Old Norse. Read a book, you television educated pedestrian asshat. I can trace my roots directly back to bannermen of Harald Hadrada, and have a degree in Norse history. Ignorance suits you.
it did change...btu then the normans gave us magna carta, modern law, parliament, and many words in our language. is this only biased, since the anglo-saxons created england and the presenters are english? do they know they are for sure? i'd bet most english people today are a broad mix of anglo-saxon, viking, norman and celtic. so don't diss the normans, your great x40 grandfather may get annoyed...
Why did they bother to show a program when they botched a dig as badly as they did the last one in this episode? Why not start the whole program over again once they know where to look?
Possibly to show that they're not 'wunderkind', that they DO make mistakes, and that they are just a TV production company trying to create a product. More kudos to them for 'uncovering' this aspect of their work. I'd love to see one on their handling of loss (theft) from within an active dig...
Sorry, dude, but the date that came to mind was not 1066 but 1776. I am not a Brit! And every time you say "Norman" I think of a t-rex with buck teeth, thick glasses, and a pocket protector as drawn by a cartoonist.
I am every bit 1776 as you. But, this is pretty basic history and applicable to us as well. How do you NOT know who the Normans were? Honest question. Not trying to be a jerk.
