In this gripping investigation, archaeologist Pepi Papakosta is on a hunt for Alexander the Great's lost tomb, and she makes an extraordinary discovery.

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declar...

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

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

The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb is revealed for the first time in color, thanks to colorization ...

In the heart of the Jordanian desert, the ancient city of Petra is full of mysteries. How was this a...

Berlin’s Museum Island, the cultural center of the German capital on the Spree river, houses a large...

A new exploration of familiar places located in the region of Rhône and Isère throught an reinventio...

The Great Year is a compelling documentary that explores the possibility that the fall of ancient ci...

This explores the mysterious and catastrophic collapse of ancient civilizations during the late Bron...

Maya legend tells us that there is a hidden underground cave below Chichen Itza, now high tech archa...

Albert Lin and National Geographic Channel unearth the terrible secrets that lie hidden in the tomb ...

Outside the Sudanese capital Khartoum, the remains of an ancient city stand in the desert. Are you r...

An account of the reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the rule of the Roman Empire, rememb...

In the first century, after the death of Herod the Great, Judea goes through a long period of turbul...

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

Best known for the myth of the Minotaur, Crete gave birth to Europe's first civilization. Yet little...

Bettany Hughes goes in search of this lost civilisation, revealing the story of a city founded out o...

Michael Wood travels through Syria and Iraq to uncover the story of Alexander the Great's decisive b...