See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In 1939, when the majority of The Dig is set, Pretty was 56, five years ...

The Dig has plowed through Netflix viewers this weekend, and everybody’s talking about it. This British drama reimagines and adds spirit to the seemingly dull 1939 excavation of an ancient ship burial ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rob Salkowitz is an Eisner-nominated comics journalist and author. Knowing that war would disrupt the exploration, archeologists ...

If you grew up in England, you probably learned about the 1939 Sutton Hoo excavation in school. But for those of us across the pond, The Dig on Netflix has a lot to teach audiences about the true ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

In 1939, a 7th century Saxon ship was uncovered at Sutton Hoo, the Suffolk property of Edith Pretty. The discovery of this ship would transform modern understandings of early medieval England, ...

On the eve of World War II, a self-taught English archaeologist, working at the behest of a Suffolk widow with a curiosity about what lay beneath several earthen mounds on her property, made what is ...

Robert Preston’s 2007 historical novel The Dig was inspired by a little-known but historically significant British event: on the eve of World War II, in 1939 Suffolk, a self-taught yet ...