Michael Wood journeys through the subcontinent, tracing the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. He charts the...
Exploring Scotland's dramatic history, Dr Fiona Watson begins with our mysterious Neolithic ancestors.
Archaeologist Ben Robinson flies over Wiltshire to uncover new discoveries in the Stone Age landscape. Sites found from the air have...
Andrew Marr traces 70,000 years of history, beginning with the earliest humans. From Africa, they spread around the wo...
By the first century, Scotland was in an age of competing tribes speaking different languages. Fiona Watson examines how the Pic...
Ben Robinson flies over the Broads where photos have revealed 945 previously unknown ancient sites, many of which have historian...
Henry Louis Gates Jr investigates Amanirenas, the Queen of the Kingdom of Kush.
Life in Bronze Age Britain through the eyes of one family as they learn how copper and tin is mined, and make bronze using a furnace.
There are also lots of barrow burials around Stonehenge and one of them, Bush Barrow Man, is used to find out about Bronze Age times.
Raksha visits Butser Ancient Farm to make a bronze age axe head exactly the way Bronze Age man would have done so.
Raksha visits the Bronze Age at an ancient farm and learns how to make woollen cloth.
Henry Louis Gates Jr investigates early human migration from Africa and the development of c...
An exploration of the first farmers in Mesopotamia.
Julia Bradbury investigates flint and the ancient craft of arrowhead making that it was used for.
Life in Iron Age Britain through the eyes of one family, as the impact of the new, and cheaper, stronger, metal on their life is explored in...
Raksha visits re-enactors who build roundhouses and try to live as they think Iron Age people did.
People tried to keep the process of making iron secret to preserve their power. It was often regarded as magic.
Raksha explores Maiden Castle; the biggest Iron Age Hill Fort in Britain.
Henry Louis Gates investigates the early uses of Iron and the impacts it had on early societies in Africa.
25 million years ago in the Oligocene Epoch lived the Indricotheres. Weighing 15 tonnes and standing 7 metres tall, they were the larges...
Last in the series follows a herd of mammoths as they make their way south for winter, running a gauntlet of ice-age hunters including ...
The series following on from Walking with Dinosaurs. begins 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet, pre...
Life in Neolithic Britain through the eyes of one family as they attempt to hunt and farm enough food to live on.
We travel back 3 million years to Ethiopia, where Australopithecus, one of the first upright apes, lived in danger of being hunted by sabre...
With disease and famine a constant threat, superstitious Iron-Age Britons sought to appease their pagan gods through rit...
Will Millard visits mid-Wales and the west of the country and uncovers a lead mine that is thousands of years old.
Lucy and the team try to unlock the mysteries of an ice age mammoth graveyard in the Cotswolds in this episode.
Using dramatized reconstructions, this program recalls the first discovery of a...
Using dramatized reconstructions, this program recalls the 'Piltdown Man' hoax in 1953.
The best archaeology from the north of Britain, including Scotland's oldest railway, one of the best-preserved Norman castles and a...
This episode follows the progress of a Smilodon called Half Tooth. Smilodon was the largest of all the sabre tooth cats which roamed South ...
Documentary following the final archaeological exploration of the interior of the largest man-made mound in Europe - Silbury Hill, one of our ...
Raksha explores the inside of a replica Stone Age house and cover the walls in wattle and daub.
The Red Lady of Paviland is one of the oldest skeletons found in Britain, dating from around 30,000 years ago. Raksha finds out what she (...
Raksha Dave explores the importance of flint to Stone Age man.
A look behind the scenes at the making of the series on prehistoric mammals. TV special effects show how Man's dextrous hands & expre...
Henry Louis Gates Jr investigates the evolution of writing in Africa.
Henry Louis Gates Jr looks at the discoveries that point to Africa as the genetic home of all currentl...
The incredible story of how mammals took over from the dinosaurs as the largest, fastest and fiercest creatures on Earth.
36 million years ago mammals ruled the world. It is in the sea, however, that the most monstrous mammals can be found.
The history of Stonehenge.
Professor Alice Roberts on the natural history of the woolly mammoth, revealing adaptations that helped the species evolve from their or...
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