Professor Alice Roberts joins the team excavating a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age village in the Cambridgeshire Fens that's been called the 'British Pompeii' due to the remarkable levels of preservation.
What life was like in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii moments before it was devastated by the erup...
A story about one of the most famous and mysterious archaeological sites in the world.
On the 24th August 79 AD, the eruption of Vesuvius eradicated the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum....
Archaeologists have just uncovered entirely new areas and villas in ancient Pompeii… the first excav...
British progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheater in the ruins of P...
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having...
At the time of Nero, the Empire is at the height of its power, but Rome, where a million inhabitants...
The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As w...
Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand hum...
It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...
The History of the Devil charts the evolution the idea of a supreme embodiment of evil from the time...
A documentary film about Syria with its diverse civilizations and history. Where the hero of the fil...
An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religio...
Over 3,500 years ago, the powerful Shang Dynasty emerged from the Central Chinese plains. Their armi...
Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.
In a one off landmark drama documentary for BBC One, Dr Margaret Mountford presents Pompeii: The Mys...
The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is kn...
The story of the Trojan Horse is probably one of the most famous stories ever told: after ten years ...
Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi - star of the landmark television series "I, Claudius" - this documenta...