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Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez

Today, experimental archaeologist Jan Knutsen andhis team of craftsmen are using his...

Today, experimental archaeologist Jan Knutsen and
his team of craftsmen are using his findings to give us
a deeper understanding by actually rebuilding a working Viking ship

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Today, experimental archaeologist
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Jan Knutsen and his team of craftsmen
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are using his findings to give us a deeper understanding by actually
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rebuilding a working Viking ship.
Duration
14 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:36:32
Uploaded
May 30, 2025
Season
2
Episode
2
Genres
documentary
Production
P.I.C.A.S.A.

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Movie Summary

The art historian travels in the footsteps of some of the world's greatest explorer-archaeologists revealing how our understanding of the sites they excavated are still shaped by their interpretations.
S02 • E01 We've never had any evidence for a king or a queen. - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:04
We've never had any evidence for a king or a queen.
S02 • E01 And he then gives you a reconstructed space here - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:09
And he then gives you a reconstructed space here
S02 • E03 So, this drawing, it's making a big, bold claim - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:09
So, this drawing, it's making a big, bold claim
S02 • E02 Hi, Jan. Hello! Hi, hi! Hi. - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:04
Hi, Jan. Hello! Hi, hi! Hi.
S02 • E01 So much so that he gives him a little courtyard here. - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:05
So much so that he gives him a little courtyard here.
S02 • E02 This looks great! Yes. What are you doing? - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:04
This looks great! Yes. What are you doing?
S02 • E01 There was never a wall here at all! - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:04
There was never a wall here at all!
S02 • E02 We're going to split this huge log to make boards for our ship. - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:06
We're going to split this huge log to make boards for o...
S02 • E01 Now we know that Knossos was part temple - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:07
Now we know that Knossos was part temple
S02 • E03 Jimmy had built his career - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:09
Jimmy had built his career
S02 • E02 Now, I thought there'd be chainsaws, you know, - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:07
Now, I thought there'd be chainsaws, you know,
S02 • E01 But Arthur, born in the age of Empire, - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:07
But Arthur, born in the age of Empire,
S02 • E03 Now these treasures - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:06
Now these treasures
S02 • E02 We're making it the old way, like the Vikings did it. - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:04
We're making it the old way, like the Vikings did it.
S02 • E01 The world that he comes from, - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:05
The world that he comes from,
S02 • E02 OK. ..to split, and then afterwards we use bigger wooden wedges - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:09
OK. ..to split, and then afterwards we use bigger wooden wed...
S02 • E03 To the public it was a sensation. - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:05
To the public it was a sensation.
S02 • E01 So, it sort of all seems like he's filling in the gaps, if you like, - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:07
So, it sort of all seems like he's filling in the gaps,...
S02 • E03 But, to his peers, - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:10
But, to his peers,
S02 • E01 He's filling in the gaps with reinforced concrete. - Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 00:05
He's filling in the gaps with reinforced concrete.