An Ancient Historian Explores 5,000-Year-Old Tombs in Scotland

5,000 years ago, the remote islands of Orkney were a major center of the Stone Age world, boasting connections that stretched across the length and breadth of Britain, Ireland, and beyond. Yet, despite its fame and popularity today, much about Neolithic Orkney remains shrouded in mystery. In this documentary, Tristan Hughes investigates Orkney’s enigmatic Neolithic past. Crawling into 5,000-year-old tombs and delving deep into one of the most significant archaeological excavations currently underway in the British Isles, he explores this extraordinary period of Scotland's prehistory.