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Ancient Voices

A dig hopes to excavate the 2000-year-old tomb of Qin Shihuang, China's First Emperor.

Walking With Cavemen

The lives of cavemen were nasty, brutish and short, but somehow they evolved over 3.5 million years into Homo sapiens.

Walking With Cavemen

Two very different species compete for survival in Africa 2,000,000 years ago.

Horizon

Are sparrows and blackbirds the direct descendants of a vicious group of dinosaurs including the velociraptor?

Ice Age Giants

Journey back 40,000 years and discover the great beasts of the Ice Age with Professor Alice Roberts. Alice's Ice Age odyssey begins in the land of the Sabre-tooth, North America, a continent that was half-covered by ice, up to two miles thick. Yet, it also boasts the most impressive cast of Ice Age Giants in the world.

Ice Age Giants

Alice ventures to the parts of the Northern Hemisphere, hit the hardest by the cold - Europe and Siberia. High in the mountains of Transylvania, a cave sealed for thousands of years reveals grisly evidence for a fight to the death between two starving giants, a cave bear and a cave lion. Yet Alice discovers that for woolly rhinos and woolly mammoths, the Ice Age created a bounty.

Deadly Dinosaurs

Steve goes on an undercover mission to unearth the sneakiest dinosaurs that were far deadlier than they first appeared.

Deadly Dinosaurs

Steve Backshall is on the hunt for the most deadly animals to have ever walked the earth: dinosaurs. Steve goes on a mission to uncover what was deadlier than the dinosaurs, from massive monsoons and super-sized sandstorms to ballistic bacteria and gory gas. In an epic finale, Steve ends with a bang as he recreates the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact in an experiment.

Deadly Dinosaurs

Steve Backshall looks back at the most awesome experiments over the series and chooses his highlights.

Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs

Part 1/3. As life starts evolving in the oceans, our bizarre earliest ancestors battle against 3m long sea scorpions and giant carnivorous fish. Their ability to survive will determine the shape of life on Earth and whether humans will exist at all. As our amphibian ancestors struggle onto land the monsters they face are even more deadly.

Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs

Part 2/3. Millions of years before the dinosaurs, a world full of giant sabretooth reptiles and huge armoured herbivores was obliterated when global temperatures soared and vast deserts blanketed the land. As the environment recovered, populations of one species of tough reptile exploded until it alone dominated the planet, but its reign was short-lived.

Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs

Part 3/3. The struggle for survival moves onto land in the shape of early reptiles such as Petrolacosaurus. In the Carboniferous swamps, insects and arthropods have taken over and grown into giants, from the giant spider Mesothelae to millipede-like monsters. As the swamps dry up, the world becomes dominated by the first ever giant reptiles - the huge, sail-backed Edaphosaurus.

Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy

Dan meets the mummies of Tutankhamun's parents at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and discovers that they were actually brother and sister. CT scans reveal how this incestuous relationship could have been responsible for Tutankhamun's poor health. Raksha heads underground to a rare tomb excavation in the Valley of the Kings which has never been seen before on television.

Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy

Picking up the story in 1323BC, the pharaoh sustains the injury that would eventually kill him. On a scan of Tutankhamun's skeleton, Dan sees a break to his thigh bone which could have been a battle injury. John visits Howard Carter's house and probes the 1920s craze of `Tutmania', when the Western world went crazy for all things Egyptian.

Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy

Dan discovers a series of curious anomalies in Tutankhamun's burial, and spots that the faces on his coffins and canopic jars do not match that of the famous golden mask. Raksha looks at Seti's tomb, which shows how low quality and hurried Tutankhamun's was in comparison. John learns how to dance like an Egyptian at a funeral, and investigates the truth of the `Curse of Tutankhamun'.

Archaeology: A Secret History

Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past. He begins by going back 2,000 years to explore how archaeology began by trying to prove a biblical truth - a quest that soon got archaeologists into dangerous water.

Archaeology: A Secret History

Archaeologist Richard Miles shows how discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began, as empires competed to 'own' the past.

Archaeology: A Secret History

Richard Miles shows how 20th-century attention turned from civilisation and kings to the search for the common man against a background of science and competing political ideologies.

Secrets of the Pyramids

Exploring fresh archaeological excavations that shed new light on the lives of those who worked tirelessly on the pyramids.

Treasures of Ancient Egypt

Alastair Sooke explores the sumptuous treasures of the Golden Age of Egyptian art, starting with troubling psychological portraits of tyrant king Senwosret III, and ending with the golden mask of boy-king Tutankhamun.

Treasures of Ancient Egypt

Alastair Sooke looks at how, despite political decline, the final era of the Egyptian Empire saw its art enjoy revival and rebirth. From the colossal statues of Rameses II that proclaimed the pharaoh's power to the final flourishes under Queen Cleopatra, Sooke discovers that the subsequent invasions by foreign rulers, from the Nubians and Alexander the Great to the Romans, produced a new hybrid ar

Ice Age Giants

Even after thousands of years of ice crushing the Northern Hemisphere and temperatures of 20 degrees lower than those of today, many of the great giants of the Ice Age still walked the earth. It was only when the world had warmed up again that mammoths, woolly rhinos, sabre-toothed cats and giant ground sloths finally became extinct. Professor Alice Roberts sets off on her last voyage back to the

Wildlife on One

Once cast as B-movie dinosaurs, Central America's green iguanas are revealing complex social lives that offer fresh clues to prehistoric dinosaur behaviour.

Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs

Part 1/3. As life starts evolving in the oceans, our bizarre earliest ancestors battle against 3m long sea scorpions and giant carnivorous fish. Their ability to survive will determine the shape of life on Earth and whether humans will exist at all. As our amphibian ancestors struggle onto land the monsters they face are even more deadly.

Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs

Part 2/3. Millions of years before the dinosaurs, a world full of giant sabretooth reptiles and huge armoured herbivores was obliterated when global temperatures soared and vast deserts blanketed the land. As the environment recovered, populations of one species of tough reptile exploded until it alone dominated the planet, but its reign was short-lived.

Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs

Part 3/3. The struggle for survival moves onto land in the shape of early reptiles such as Petrolacosaurus. In the Carboniferous swamps, insects and arthropods have taken over and grown into giants, from the giant spider Mesothelae to millipede-like monsters. As the swamps dry up, the world becomes dominated by the first ever giant reptiles - the huge, sail-backed Edaphosaurus.

Horizon

Scientists investigate the meteorite impact responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs. According to a theory, the event was triggered by a comet hitting the present-day Gulf of Mexico.

Lost Cities of The Ancients

A journey to discover the legendary lost city of Piramesse, a magnificent ancient capital built 3,000 years ago by the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great. When it was finally rediscovered by early archaeologists, it opened up a bizarre puzzle because it was in the wrong place.

Lost Cities of The Ancients

In the Lambayeque valley in northern Peru lies a strange lost world, the forgotten ruins of 250 mysterious pyramids, including some of the biggest on the planet, colossal structures made out of mud bricks.

Lost Cities of The Ancients

This is the story of the formidable Hittites and their long-lost capital, Hattusha, which has recently been rediscovered. Buried in this lost city is one of the greatest libraries of the ancient world, and all the secrets of this mysterious civilisation were written in two codes - one a unique form of hieroglyphs with which we can recreate the lost world of the Hittites.

Archaeology: A Secret History

Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past. He begins by going back 2,000 years to explore how archaeology began by trying to prove a biblical truth - a quest that soon got archaeologists into dangerous water.

Archaeology: A Secret History

Archaeologist Richard Miles shows how discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began, as empires competed to 'own' the past.