Bettany Hughes goes in search of this lost civilisation, revealing the story of a city founded out of the desert by Alexander the Great in 331 BC to become the world's first global centre of culture. The documentary also looks at the role of astronomer and philosopher Hypatia, and incorporates stunning footage from the feature film 'Agora'.

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declar...

Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale th...

Maya legend tells us that there is a hidden underground cave below Chichen Itza, now high tech archa...
An examination of how Africa's mythological stories have served as the basis for the world religions...

This explores the mysterious and catastrophic collapse of ancient civilizations during the late Bron...

In the Formative Period 4,000 years before the Incas and the arrival of the Conquistadors, Peru’s ea...

Berlin’s Museum Island, the cultural center of the German capital on the Spree river, houses a large...

This James A. FitzPatrick's People on Parade series short takes the viewer to Alexandria, Egypt, wit...

Shocking new evidence of highly advanced civilizations mounts as previously unexplored regions of th...

In this gripping investigation, archaeologist Pepi Papakosta is on a hunt for Alexander the Great's ...

In the first century, after the death of Herod the Great, Judea goes through a long period of turbul...

The Great Year is a compelling documentary that explores the possibility that the fall of ancient ci...

Best known for the myth of the Minotaur, Crete gave birth to Europe's first civilization. Yet little...

Albert Lin and National Geographic Channel unearth the terrible secrets that lie hidden in the tomb ...

Outside the Sudanese capital Khartoum, the remains of an ancient city stand in the desert. Are you r...

The story of the Trojan Horse is probably one of the most famous stories ever told: after ten years ...

Behind the myth of Alexander the Great, romanticized by centuries of history, the reality of the cha...

Professor Bettany Hughes takes viewers on a journey of discovery as she investigates 10 of the great...