PROBABLY Oxfordshire’s best-loved historian, Janina Ramirez, returns to our screens tomorrow evening with a swashbuckling look at the world of archaeology.
The Oxford University academic, presenter and author stars in Raiders of the Lost Past on BBC2. The documentary, which playfully references the Indiana Jones blockbuster, sees the art history expert picking out extraordinary moments and objects from history while on the trail of great explorers.
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Mrs Ramirez, who lives in Woodstock, began the series on the Greek island of Crete last week, pursuing the trail of the millionaire who discovered the mythical palace of the Minotaur.
Raiders of The Lost Past with Janina Ramirez - Photographer: Alleycats TV
Tomorrow she heads to Scandinavia with an investigation of an astonishingly well preserved Viking vessel discovered in a burial mound in Norway which dates back 1,000 years.
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