Tim Sutherland makes numerous discoveries as bones from the 1385 Battle of Aljubarrota, in which Portugal defeated the Crown of Castile, are forensically examined.

Tim Sutherland, Malin Holst and Simon Richardson explore the site of a siege during the Crusades, where an earthquake preserved the bodies of the soldiers.

Artefacts related to medieval Italian warlords and their armies of mercenaries, who provided defence for the country's city states which had great wealth but small standing armies.