John Romer recreates the glory and history of Byzantium. From the Hagia Sophia in present-day Istanbul to the looted treasures of the empire now located in St. Marks in Venice.
A guided tour of the history of numbers and how they’ve shaped the development of humankind is at th...
1984 Channel 4 documentary series surveying the history of New Testament scholarship, giving an over...
How was everyday life in Ancient Greece? Did it have anything in common with our lives today? With t...
Egyptian archaeologist Dr. Yasmin el-Shazly and photographer Mahmoud Rashad investigate the life and...
Expert interviews and gripping reenactments combine to reveal the extraordinary life of Alexander th...
Bettany Hughes take viewers on armchair travels to explore household-name treasures and new finds fr...
Bettany Hughes searches out the real truth about the birth of democracy in ancient Athens 2500 years...
Tutored by Aristotle, helpless witness to his father's assassination, and a brilliant, pioneering ta...
The story of Romulus and his twin brother Remus, in eighth century B.C. as seen through the eyes of ...
A Roman general leads the epic 1st-century siege of Masada, the mountain fortress where more than 90...
In 1072, King Ly Thanh Tong died, 7 years old Crown Prince Can Duc ascended the throne, alias Ly Nha...
Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill an...
10th century, the most powerful state in Europe rests on a terrible secret that may threaten the ver...
Shortly after astrology predicts destruction to befall the Tang Dynasty, a coup d'état led by the cr...
Chu Yuan is at the palace courtroom while Duan Baiyue is at the Southwest. Everyone believes they’re...
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention, Connections explores a...
Documentary series about the effect of advances in science and technology on western society in its ...
Sequel series to the 1979 "Connections" where historian James Burke walks the viewer through the ten...