On the most superficial level, it’s that archaeology – even when the practice is explicitly being undertaken in a place where a corpse has been lain – isn’t about the dead but the living.

It fizzes with curbed passions amid honey-coloured fields” This is a film of two halves, the first about archaeology, the second concerned with the personal lives of the people behind the dig.

‘The Dig’ uncovers some dirt about the archaeological crowd, but keeps it classy Carey Mulligan dials it down as a landowner dealing with an underground discovery and all the people it excites.

Almost everybody gets information about archaeology from television and movies, and if you look at the types of movies and TV shows, you’ve got things like Indiana Jones and Lara Croft, and on TV ...

The Nazis in Indiana Jones are surprisingly accurate. Their attempts to secure the Holy Grail were based on real people ...

On the most superficial level, it’s that archaeology — even when the practice is explicitly being undertaken in a place where a corpse has been lain — isn’t about the dead, but the living.