Canadian strips archaeology bare

Simcha Jocobovici is the host of a great new documentary series called "The Naked Archaeologist". The series airs on Canada's "Vision Channel" each Tuesday at 9:30pm and 1:30 a.m. ET, and repeats on Tuesdays, at 10:30 p.m. ET.

Jocobovici is a two-time Emmy Award winning producer and director and his show looks at Biblical archaeology in a fresh light. Shot on location in Israel, Egypt and Greece this Canadian Indiana Jones dances, raps and clambers under barbed wire and over fences in search of the most extraordinary archaeological finds from the ancient Middle East, and isn't affraid to clash swords with some of the world’s foremost archaeologists, historians and scientists over the perceptions of the acient world that we have grown to believe.

Fast, funny and irreverent Jacobovici asks the questions we all want to know the answers to: Was Jezebel really that sexy? What do you do when you find a 2,000-year-old palace under your house? And where do you stop for a good falafel when you’re on your way to find the real Mount Sinai?

In one episode Jacobovici fearlessly probes one of the most controversial new theories in Biblical archaeology: Does arecently discovered Bronze Age ceramic penises explain why Delilah fell for Samson?

This series is a completely fresh way of looking at archaeology and history. Simcha takes the viewer to places most of us will never have access to and reveals what archaeology can – and cannot – tell us about history and the Bible all in a fun way.

The show also helps us to see that the ancient past is still with us. Only The Naked Archaeologist could relate a history of the alphabet that brings together ancient inscriptions, the Biblical story of Exodus and the ‘tags’ of modern-day graffiti artists.

The series offers up 26 halh hour episodes ranging from a debate over the autheticity of the James Ossuary to an enlightning discovery at the Church of St. John. He finds out the Baptist features a painting by a Canadian artist, complete with carved beavers on the frame. Complete episode guide


Here's a video:

The Naked Archaeologist

Here are two reviews of the show,

"...Archeologist is ‘naked’ and in your face", The Globe and Mail

"...the naked truth-he's out there looking for the truth in the bible..." The Toronto Star

I know this series is airing in Britain but I'm not sure about the U.S and I checked Amazon and the DVD's are not yet available.

Later,
Kenaz