Part 1. Creating a science of the past
lecture 1. Archaeology's big bang
lecture 2. "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
lecture 3. A quest for the Trojan War
Lecture 5. First find your site
lecture 6. Taking the search underwater
lecture 7. Cracking the codes
lecture 8. Techniques for successful dating
lecture 9. Reconstructing vanished environments
lecture 10. "Not artifacts but people"
lecture 11. Archaeology by experiment
lecture 12. Return to Vesuvius.
Part 2. An archaeologist's casebook
Harriet Boyd and the Mother Goddess
lecture 16. Athens' Agora
lost ship of the Hellenistic Age
foundation myths and archaeology
lecture 21. Caesarea Maritima
healing waters at Aquae Sulis
lecture 24. Torre de Palma
Part 3. A view from the trenches
lecture 25. Roots of classical culture
lecture 26. The texture of everyday life
lecture 27. Their daily bread
lecture 28. Voyaging on a dark sea of wine
lecture 29. Shows and circuses
lecture 30. Engineering and technology
lecture 32. Women of Greece and Rome
lecture 34. Crucible of new faiths
lecture 35. The end of the world
lecture 36. A bridge across the Torrent.