On the eve of publication day - introducing my new book on history, medicine, archaeology & genetics: CRYPT! | Alice Roberts

This book is about belonging: about walking in ancient places, in the footsteps of the ancestors. It’s about reaching back in time, to find ourselves, and our place in the world. We might think of Britain ‘beginning’ with the arrival of the Romans - when we start to have written records. But archaeology allows us to push back much further, into prehistory. And there, we uncover chronicles in stone, pottery, metal and bone. Burials are like time capsules - each one, a physical biography, written

Lost Grail starts tonight at 9pm on @historyuk! Who’s coming along? | Alice Roberts