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  • TV guide
Season 1 | Episode 1 Sun 12 Feb at 18:45

  • Season 1 

Professor Alice Roberts charts the rise of civilisation from 6100BCE to the end of the Bronze Age. A time of great architecture, literature and the arts, most of these great civilisations suddenly collapsed, plunging the world into a dark age.

Episodes

Season Episode 1 Ancient Global Warming

Ancient Global Warming

  • Episode 1
  • PG
  • 00:45:00

Professor Alice Roberts charts the rise of civilisation from 6100BCE to the end of the Bronze Age. A time of great architecture, literature and the arts, most of these great civilisations suddenly collapsed, plunging the world into a dark age.

Season Episode 2 Rome's Rise and Fall

Rome's Rise and Fall

  • Episode 2
  • PG
  • 00:45:00

Professor Alice Roberts looks at the rise of the Roman Empire, asking what was the secret to Rome�s success? Experts investigate newly discovered battlegrounds in Britain and Spain to find out how Rome defeated her enemies.

Season Episode 3 The Darkest Age

The Darkest Age

  • Episode 3
  • PG
  • 00:45:00

Professor Alice Roberts explores the disastrous last days of the Roman Empire and the cataclysmic power vacuum following its collapse; the effects felt even beyond the Empire�s borders.

Season Episode 4 God's Holy Warriors

God's Holy Warriors

  • Episode 4
  • PG
  • 00:45:00

Professor Alice Roberts reveals how archaeologists unveil one of history�s most mysterious periods. After Rome's collapse, Saxons and Vikings rampaged through Europe, but then these pagan societies seemed to disappear. Where did they go? And why?

Season Episode 4 God's Holy Warriors

God's Holy Warriors

  • Episode 4

Professor Alice Roberts reveals how archaeologists unveil one of history�s most mysterious periods. After Rome's collapse, Saxons and Vikings rampaged through Europe, but then these pagan societies seemed to disappear. Where did they go? And why?

Season Episode 5 Medieval Mysteries

Medieval Mysteries

  • Episode 5
  • PG
  • 00:45:00

Professor Alice Roberts looks at one of the most cursed periods in European history: the Middle Ages. Archaeologists reveal how wars, pandemics, and cataclysmic floods toppled the world of our ancestors. So how did Western society survive?

Season Episode 5 Medieval Mysteries

Medieval Mysteries

  • Episode 5

Professor Alice Roberts looks at one of the most cursed periods in European history: the Middle Ages. Archaeologists reveal how wars, pandemics, and cataclysmic floods toppled the world of our ancestors. So how did Western society survive?