In Cairo, a German-Egyptian team is searching for traces of the largest temple of the Pharaohs, seeking answers as to why the sanctuary was abandoned more than 2000 years ago.

It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made stru...

With over 60 tombs, the Valley of the Kings is the most-famous burial ground on Earth. In the bigges...

Up to one million gladiators are thought to have died in arenas across the Roman Empire. And, althou...

Professor Alice Roberts follows a decade-long historical quest to reveal a hidden secret of the famo...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

It is possible that only one per cent of the wonders of ancient Egypt have been discovered, but now,...

Two thousand years ago, it was a flourishing city in the middle of what is now a Syrian desert. At t...

Huelva, Spain, an isolated region lost in time. The grass, the sand and the sky are the same that th...

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

For centuries, Stonehenge has been cloaked in mystery. Who built it? How did they do it? Why did the...

Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil h...

Just off the southern coast of mainland Greece lies the oldest submerged city in the world. It thriv...

Egypt is home to one of the world's earliest civilizations, with its earliest settlements in norther...

A documentary made by History Time on YouTube. Written, researched and produced by Pete Kelly.