See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In 1939, when the majority of The Dig is set, Pretty was 56, five years ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Robert Preston’s 2007 historical novel The Dig was inspired by a little-known but historically significant British event: on the eve of World War II, in 1939 Suffolk, a self-taught yet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...