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Yes - it was very disappointing compared with the first two programmes, but then he is an art historian and not an archaeologist. I was put off by all the Nurenburg rally stuff featuring GW and then we jump to the Ambresbury archer and suddenly Stonehenge is a presidential podium! Daft to suggest that any single leader built Stonehenge - impossible to do in any single lifetime. Then there was the assertion that he was the first leader to suss out that you needed to wear gold braid to impress the plebs. And the certainty that the plebs all wore animal skins - that isn't true of Bronze Age people is it? Got fed up with it and when he started on about Alexander the Great and switched off.

I thought the first 2 were the same - entertaining & interesting in places, but with too many leaps with not enough evidence etc.

I can still hardly believe he put forward the premise that ALL art sprang from shamanic hallucination, let alone that he presented it as FACT not theory....

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Moth