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.
With an area three times larger than Pompeii, Baia, about 15 km from Naples and within the volcanic ...
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having...
Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.
Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi - star of the landmark television series "I, Claudius" - this documenta...
It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...
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...
The story of the Trojan Horse is probably one of the most famous stories ever told: after ten years ...
Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...
The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As w...
5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...
Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand hum...
Archaeologists have just uncovered entirely new areas and villas in ancient Pompeii… the first excav...
At the time of Nero, the Empire is at the height of its power, but Rome, where a million inhabitants...
On the 24th August 79 AD, the eruption of Vesuvius eradicated the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum....
An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religio...
What life was like in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii moments before it was devastated by the erup...