![]() 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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