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.

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...

Naples faces dual volcanic threats from Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. Amid increasing tremors, archaeo...

British progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheater in the ruins of P...

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

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having...

Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand hum...

The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As w...

In 79 AD, one of the infamous natural disasters in human history occurred when Mount Vesuvius erupte...

On the 24th August 79 AD, the eruption of Vesuvius eradicated the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum....

One of history's most enigmatic mysteries is unraveled in this fascinating one-hour special. Stunnin...

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

In a one off landmark drama documentary for BBC One, Dr Margaret Mountford presents Pompeii: The Mys...

Over 3,500 years ago, the powerful Shang Dynasty emerged from the Central Chinese plains. Their armi...

A story about one of the most famous and mysterious archaeological sites in the world.

In the beginning was sex. To the ancient cultures, sexuality, love and sex were inextricably connect...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

Archaeologists have just uncovered entirely new areas and villas in ancient Pompeii… the first excav...