Medieval African Mystery - History Cold Case - S01 EP01 - History Documentary

I’m surprised this show wasn’t longer lived. So very interesting.

This should still be going even today. We learned so much from cold cases. Theres thousands skeletal remains in vaults waiting to be seen This program should be back. ❤

I could listen to professor sue black for hours. Remarkable lady ,

It would be wild if they uploaded these to like GED match and you could see if you were related to some of these ancient skeletons they find.

Love this show, sad there are only two seasons, filmed in 2010 and 2011.

Wish there were more in the series. Dame Dr Susan Black rocks it

They should redo a mini series on all these cases with updates using new technology. Or they can start a new global series, where they go around the world in search of cold cases

From Sydney Australia. I came across these episodes years ago and still love them. Love the team. Love the shows. Fascinating.

This show is brilliant I have learned so much from it. Ancestry is fascinating.

I go over these every couple years. I like this stuff so much I wish they would open this program again and put some new ones out. Thank you.

An additional possibility ( confirmed by many other records ) is that sailors on these long journeys abroad sometimes died on the way, got into fights & were killed in arguments or, died in skirmishes on land. Captains needed to have a full compliment of crew, and were quite well known to use any methods to obtain sturdy individuals willing to join the crew. These new crew members would of course be recruited at the ports they visited & could be Portuguese Spanish or indeed any race colour or creed capable & willing. Being residents of the ports they would most probably be individuals already having sea & sailing experience, & therefore already suited for the job. It was of necessity incumbent on Captains because trying to manage a vessel in storms while lacking sufficient crew, invariably endangered all.

For me to learn so much is a dream come true. I sure stay up late at night so I can see these wonderful videos thanks again.. Granny90

Watching these has made start considering a career in forensic anthropology

What a great series! Why is it not on any more. I read there were 2 seasons, but YouTube only has 4 episodes.

I’ve seen all the shows and hope more are made.

Fascinating, wish more episodes were made

14:35 I'm hugely excited by this. The excellent Shardlake historical//crime book series has a continuing character who came from North Africa to a monastery in Tudor England. His parents had converted to Christianity when he was a very young boy. I don't think I've ever had a book "come to life" for me like this. I actually thought the character was a bit far fetched, coming from North Africa, becoming a monk, then after the dissolution of the monasteries becoming an apothecary. And yet here he is!

Purely amazing.. glad I've found this show. Thanks for sharing this with us grateful

I'm a bit baffled by the scientist researching the y-chromosomes... surely the passing down of y-chromosomes doesn't necessarily align with the line of surnames. All it takes is one single illegitimate child to overthrow the correlation of all previous generations entirely. But he does state the given link between surname and y-chromosome twice. I'm assuming he probably brought that nuance to the conversation, but it was cut by editors?

I remember bingeing on the entire series several years ago.