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The Vikings Uncovered

Dan Snow uncovers the lost Vikings in America with Dr Sarah Parcak. As Sarah searches for Vikings across the Atlantic, Dan explores their journey 500 years before Columbus.

Dan Snow uncovers the lost Vikings in America with space archaeologist Dr Sarah Parcak. Sarah uses satellites 383 miles above the earth to spot ruins as small as 30cm buried beneath the surface. As Sarah searches for Viking sites from Britain to America, Dan explores how they voyaged thousands of miles when most ships never left the shoreline. He also tracks their expansion west, first as raiders and then as settlers and traders throughout Britain and beyond to Iceland and Greenland. In North America they excavate what could be the most westerly Viking settlement ever discovered.

DEVELOPMENT:
Lisa MacHale
Dudley Cruse.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 23 May 2018 02:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Dan Snow
Presenter Sarah Parcak
Executive Producer Eamon Hardy
Executive Producer Cameron Balbirnie
Production Manager Sophie Chapman
Production Coordinator Kassi Jones
Production Coordinator Bianca Marks
Assistant Producer Laura Nash
Assistant Producer Rebecca Palmer
Researcher Tom Horne
Producer Harvey Lilley
Director Harvey Lilley

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