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...

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.

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...

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

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

A documentary film about Syria with its diverse civilizations and history. Where the hero of the fil...

At the time of Nero, the Empire is at the height of its power, but Rome, where a million inhabitants...

What life was like in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii moments before it was devastated by the erup...

The History of the Devil charts the evolution the idea of a supreme embodiment of evil from the time...

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

An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religio...

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 ...

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

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

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