Dan visits the magnificent underground tombs in the Valley of the Kings, in search of clues about the unsung heroes of this ancient world - the mysterious community of craftsmen who spent their lives ...

Historian and writer Dan Cruickshank celebrates architecture as a creative force as he explores the world's greatest cities, buildings and monuments. In the first episode, Cruickshank explores how ...

Architectural historian and author Dan Cruickshank is the latest 'Talking Head' in the series that has packed Greenwich Theatre over the last two years through the likes of Germaine Greer, David ...

Cruickshank succinctly reminded us of the aims of IS, chiefly an ambition to create a worldwide Caliphate which pays no heed to national boundaries. No longer will Muslims be Syrians or Iraqis, but ...

As good as any Dickens novel, this is the triumphant and tragic story of the greatest architectural dynasty of the 19th century. Dan Cruickshank charts the rise of Sir George Gilbert Scott to the very ...

Introduction -- Pioneers -- Rhetoric (building with a message) -- Sacred -- Urban visions -- Big and beautiful -- Material matters -- Lost and found -- Glossary ...

They don't want you to believe what she saw. There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them ...

We would all love to live in a cottage. It is the national fantasy - thatch on the roof, roses over the door, fire in the grate. Dan is in Stoneleigh in the beautiful Warwickshire countryside. The ...

Dan Cruickshank is a regular presenter on the BBC, best known for his popular series Adventures in Architecture, Britain’s Best Buildings, Around the World in 80 Treasures and for his appearances in ...

When U.S. forces invaded Iraq in 2003, archaeologists, scholars and museum specialists around the world feared for the safety of ancient artifacts and cultural monuments throughout the region. As the ...

Dan Cruickshank takes an up-close-and-personal look at the place we are all familiar with but rarely stop to question – our home. Why are those stairs at that angle? Why is the kitchen at the back of ...