Anatomy. If you want to learn it, I'm here to teach it. #LockdownAnatomy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uacprIjyL2c&list=PL4UJ51L9AD1XAbkpGkcydgyVgU9pS__DQ | Alice Roberts

Fight the decrepitude! 💪 | Alice Roberts

Second episode coming up at 9pm on Channel 4 (and then of course available on streaming) - delving into tunnels at Herculaneum and the hypogaeum of Capua. And a famous sword! | Alice Roberts

Coming soon, to a bookshop near you… I’ve LOVED working on this book - it’s been such a great team effort, with loads of friends & colleagues contributing, under the incredible guidance of DK editors Angeles Gavira and Rob Houston. I’ve never seen a book on HUMANS this ambitious - I wanted it to be wide-ranging and cross-disciplinary, genre-defying. I wanted anatomy, physiology, evolution, archaeology, anthropology in one big book. And I think we’ve done it! https://dk.com/products/9780241682746

This book is about belonging: about walking in ancient places, in the footsteps of the ancestors. It’s about reaching back in time, to find ourselves, and our place in the world. We might think of Britain ‘beginning’ with the arrival of the Romans - when we start to have written records. But archaeology allows us to push back much further, into prehistory. And there, we uncover chronicles in stone, pottery, metal and bone. Burials are like time capsules - each one, a physical biography, written