![]() ![]() ![]() The well-mannered, pre-WWII English dialogue is thoughtfully accompanied by a swooning musical arrangement, all building toward the creation of the ideal scene. Without ever going over the top with theatrics and excitement, it draws the gaze of its audience to every little detail. With inspiring performances, “The Dig” manages to be a heartwarming and exciting film. The film, which is based on a true story, follows an archaeological dig taking place in the backyard of a dying widow, led by an excavator never properly trained in archeology joined by a rag-tag mix of friends and museum curators. It may seem unexciting to watch a movie about an archaeological dig that isn’t “Indiana Jones.” Yet, with the truly incredible names on the cast list for “The Dig” - Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan, and Lily James to name a few - and a story that’s heartwarming and insightful, “The Dig” manages to turn seemingly bland subject matter into a compelling narrative. If you want to be the first to receive the latest news from Malta, download the Newsbook APP here. This eventually became the still to-go-to reference book on Maltese prehistoric monuments, ‘The Prehistoric Antiquities of the Maltese Islands’ by J.D Evans (1971). Some of the books by Stuart Piggott found-at the NMA reference-library | Photo credit: National Museum of Archaeology, MaltaĪccording to the NMA, Piggott was to leave a more significant mark on Maltese archaeology as one of the external experts on the commission supervising the defining study, Malta Ancient Monuments Survey which recorded Malta’s prehistoric monuments, excavations and objects found there. One of the characters in the film The Dig (which is based on the true story of the Sutton Hoo excavation) currently streaming on Netflix, is archaeologist Stuart Piggott, played by actor Ben Chaplin.īut what connection did the real-life Piggott have with Malta?Ī very interesting post on the National Museum of Archaeology (NMA), Malta’s Facebook Page speaks of a short stop by Piggott and scientist and archaeologist Glyn Daniel in Malta in 1943, en route from Cairo to Algiers, where the two “spent two ‘blissful’ days inspecting megalithic monuments and rock-cut tombs on the island, several spattered with bits of German and Italian aircraft” (Source: Roger Mercer, British Academy 1998). ![]()
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