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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - The Minotaur's Palace
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S2:E1

    Janina is in Crete on the trail of the millionaire who discovered the mythical palace of the Minotaur and the first western civilisation, but who is now mired in controversy.

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    Writer:Janina Ramirez

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  2. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - The Viking Ship
    7.5/10(2 votes)

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    Janina is in Scandinavia, investigating the lost 1000-year-old ship that transformed the fierce reputation of the Vikings – and became a symbol of a nation's fight for freedom.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Janina Ramirez

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - The Sutton Hoo Hoard
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E1

    Janina Ramirez explores the surprise discovery in a Suffolk garden of the Sutton Hoo Hoard – an incredible Anglo-Saxon ship-burial dating from the early 7th century AD and the final resting place of a supremely wealthy warrior-king. The ship’s ruined burial chamber was packed with treasures: Byzantine silverware, sumptuous gold jewellery, a lavish feasting set and, most famously, an ornate iron helmet.

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    Writer:Janina Ramirez

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  4. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - The Lion Man
    7.0/10(2 votes)

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    The Lion Man takes Nina deep into the dark heart of Nazi Germany, where in a remote cave in late August 1939, archaeologist Robert Wetzel came across the 40,000-year-old artwork now known as the Lion Man. Just a week later, WWII broke out, the excavation came to halt and, in one of the great mysteries of archaeology, Wetzel never mentioned his incredible find again. As Janina discovers, the Lion Man represents a revolution in the human story. Half-man and half-animal, it is the first artwork created from the human imagination, revealing the very origins of human art, religion and culture.

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    Writer:Janina Ramirez

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  5. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - The Olmec Heads
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S1:E3

    Janina Ramirez travels to Mexico, where, just before the outbreak of WWII, American husband-and-wife explorer team Matthew and Marion Stirling were lured into the jungle by the legend of a colossal stone head. They found the head – and a lot more than they bargained for – because it turned out to be the first clue in a trail that led to the discovery of a lost civilisation, now known as the Olmecs.

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    Writer:Janina Ramirez

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  6. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - World's First City
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S2:E3

    Janina heads to the vast Konya Plain of Turkey, tracking a young explorer who found the world's oldest city and rewrote the beginning of civilisation - until his reputation was destroyed by scandal.

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    Writer:Janina Ramirez

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - Libraries Gave Us Power
    7.0/10(1 votes)

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    The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries; and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Janina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance.

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    Writer:Janina Ramirez

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - What a King Should Know
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E2

    Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion. She discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopedia.

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    Writer:Janina Ramirez

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  9. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Pagans to Vikings
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E1

    Dr Janina Ramirez explores how monasteries evolved from a cult of extreme isolation and self-deprivation into powerhouses of Anglo-Saxon art, industry and learning. Janina begins her journey on the desolate rock of Skellig St Michael off the east coast of Ireland, home to the oldest surviving monastery in the British Isles. Monasteries such as Lindisfarne and Whitby became beacons of civilisation and literature in the barbaric Anglo-Saxon world, creating wondrous works of art including the Lindisfarne Gospels and St Cuthbert's pectoral cross. They transform the culture and landscape of England, until they too were destroyed by a new wave of barbarian invaders

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    Writer:Janina Ramirez

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - From the Vikings to the 15th Century
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E2

    The golden age of the British monastery was during the medieval period, when monks transformed British society and rose to a position of immense power. Fighting back after centuries of defeat and neglect, a wave of new monasteries spread across the nation, with over 500 British monastic houses established by the 14th century. Far from the inward-looking recluses of legend, monks were exceptionally creative, and became pioneers in the fields of medicine, science, scholarship, industry, farming, art and music. They didn't turn their back on the medieval world, but helped transform it. Yet as the monasteries mingled with the world outside their cloisters they began to take on its corruption

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    Writer:Janina Ramirez

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - Secular Society
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E3

    Dr Janina Ramirez discovers how the immensely rich and powerful monasteries, that had dominated British society for a thousand years, were annihilated in less than five years. In the 15th century, eight hundred monasteries in England owned one third of the nation's land. Many monks were living in palatial monasteries and were patrons of the finest art and architecture. Janina then traces the story of the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. Although not a single monastery survived the systematic liquidation, Janina shows the lasting impact Britain's millennium of monasteries had on our society and culture.

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    Writer:Janina Ramirez

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  12. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Ruling by the Book
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E1

    Dr Janina Ramirez begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum.

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    Writer:Janina Ramirez

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Janina Ramirez Ratings Summary

"The Minotaur's Palace" is the best rated episode written by Janina Ramirez. It scored 7.5/10 from 2 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on February 19, 2021.