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.
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having...
The story of the Trojan Horse is probably one of the most famous stories ever told: after ten years ...
British progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheater in the ruins of P...
A story about one of the most famous and mysterious archaeological sites in the world.
It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...
5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...
Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...
Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand hum...
Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.
The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As w...
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...
At the time of Nero, the Empire is at the height of its power, but Rome, where a million inhabitants...
An exploration of the contrast between modern civilization and isolated groups of people, often refe...
The History of the Devil charts the evolution the idea of a supreme embodiment of evil from the time...
In the beginning was sex. To the ancient cultures, sexuality, love and sex were inextricably connect...
One of history's most enigmatic mysteries is unraveled in this fascinating one-hour special. Stunnin...
Archaeologists have just uncovered entirely new areas and villas in ancient Pompeii… the first excav...
Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi - star of the landmark television series "I, Claudius" - this documenta...
On the 24th August 79 AD, the eruption of Vesuvius eradicated the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum....