1: Beginnings | Michael Wood: The Story of India

1: Beginnings | Michael Wood: The Story of India

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2007 | 59'02''

Michael Wood journeys through the subcontinent, tracing the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. He charts the...

S1E2 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

S1E2 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Four | 2018 | 59'32''

Will Millard visits mid-Wales and the west of the country and uncovers a lead mine that is thousands of years old.

S1E1: The Cult | The Battle for Britain’s Soul

S1E1: The Cult | The Battle for Britain’s Soul

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2004 | 59'07''

With disease and famine a constant threat, superstitious Iron-Age Britons sought to appease their pagan gods through rit...

Silbury: the Heart of the Hill

Silbury: the Heart of the Hill

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Four | 2007 | 59'10''

Documentary following the final archaeological exploration of the interior of the largest man-made mound in Europe - Silbury Hill, one of our ...

2: Norfolk Broads | The Flying Archaeologist

2: Norfolk Broads | The Flying Archaeologist

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2013 | 28'58''

Ben Robinson flies over the Broads where photos have revealed 945 previously unknown ancient sites, many of which have historian...

1: Stonehenge | The Flying Archaeologist

1: Stonehenge | The Flying Archaeologist

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2013 | 28'58''

Archaeologist Ben Robinson flies over Wiltshire to uncover new discoveries in the Stone Age landscape. Sites found from the air have...

S9E3: Norman Castle | Digging for Britain

S9E3: Norman Castle | Digging for Britain

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2022 | 58'58''

The best archaeology from the north of Britain, including Scotland's oldest railway, one of the best-preserved Norman castles and a...

S2E7: Dinosaurs & Duplicity: Discovery of the First Dinosaur | Days That Shook the World

S2E7: Dinosaurs & Duplicity: Discovery of the First Dinosaur | Days That Shook the World

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2004 | 30'08''

Using dramatized reconstructions, this program recalls the first discovery of a...

S2E7: Piltdown Man | Days That Shook the World

S2E7: Piltdown Man | Days That Shook the World

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2004 | 29'10''

Using dramatized reconstructions, this program recalls the 'Piltdown Man' hoax in 1953.

1: Survival | Andrew Marr’s History of the World

1: Survival | Andrew Marr’s History of the World

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2012 | 59'26''

Andrew Marr traces 70,000 years of history, beginning with the earliest humans. From Africa, they spread around the wo...

S1E6: Latton Mammoths | The Big Monster Dig

S1E6: Latton Mammoths | The Big Monster Dig

Ancient Civilizations | Channel 4 | 2004 | 49'10''

Lucy and the team try to unlock the mysteries of an ice age mammoth graveyard in the Cotswolds in this episode.

2: Birth of a Nation | In Search of Scotland

2: Birth of a Nation | In Search of Scotland

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2001 | 29'16''

By the first century, Scotland was in an age of competing tribes speaking different languages. Fiona Watson examines how the Pic...

1: Mysterious Ancestors | In Search of Scotland

1: Mysterious Ancestors | In Search of Scotland

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2001 | 29'06''

Exploring Scotland's dramatic history, Dr Fiona Watson begins with our mysterious Neolithic ancestors.

Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice

Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2012 | 59'07''

Professor Alice Roberts on the natural history of the woolly mammoth, revealing adaptations that helped the species evolve from their or...

New Dawn | Walking with Beasts

New Dawn | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'11''

The series following on from Walking with Dinosaurs. begins 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet, pre...

Land of Giants | Walking with Beasts

Land of Giants | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'16''

25 million years ago in the Oligocene Epoch lived the Indricotheres. Weighing 15 tonnes and standing 7 metres tall, they were the larges...

Whale Killer | Walking with Beasts

Whale Killer | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'05''

36 million years ago mammals ruled the world. It is in the sea, however, that the most monstrous mammals can be found.

Sabre Tooth | Walking with Beasts

Sabre Tooth | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'01''

This episode follows the progress of a Smilodon called Half Tooth. Smilodon was the largest of all the sabre tooth cats which roamed South ...

Next of Kin | Walking with Beasts

Next of Kin | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'02''

We travel back 3 million years to Ethiopia, where Australopithecus, one of the first upright apes, lived in danger of being hunted by sabre...

Mammoth Journey | Walking with Beasts

Mammoth Journey | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 28'59''

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 Beasts Within | Walking with Beasts

The Beasts Within | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 49'15''

A look behind the scenes at the making of the series on prehistoric mammals. TV special effects show how Man's dextrous hands & expre...

Triumph of the Beasts | Walking with Beasts

Triumph of the Beasts | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 49'13''

The incredible story of how mammals took over from the dinosaurs as the largest, fastest and fiercest creatures on Earth.

Iron Age Britain | Learning Zone

Iron Age Britain | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 5'51''

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...

Bronze Age Britain | Learning Zone

Bronze Age Britain | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 5'55''

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.

New Stone Age | Learning Zone

New Stone Age | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 6'22''

Life in Neolithic Britain through the eyes of one family as they attempt to hunt and farm enough food to live on.

Iron Age: iron | Learning Zone

Iron Age: iron | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 4'51''

People tried to keep the process of making iron secret to preserve their power. It was often regarded as magic.

Bronze Age: wool | Learning Zone

Bronze Age: wool | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 2'45''

Raksha visits the Bronze Age at an ancient farm and learns how to make woollen cloth.

Iron Age: daily life | Learning Zone

Iron Age: daily life | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 4'48''

Raksha visits re-enactors who build roundhouses and try to live as they think Iron Age people did.

Iron Age: tribes | Learning Zone

Iron Age: tribes | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 3'15''

Raksha explores Maiden Castle; the biggest Iron Age Hill Fort in Britain.

Bronze Age Stonehenge gold | Learning Zone

Bronze Age Stonehenge gold | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 4'46''

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.

Bronze Age: making metal | Learning Zone

Bronze Age: making metal | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 4'45''

Raksha visits Butser Ancient Farm to make a bronze age axe head exactly the way Bronze Age man would have done so.

Stone Age homes | Learning Zone

Stone Age homes | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 3'26''

Raksha explores the inside of a replica Stone Age house and cover the walls in wattle and daub.

Stone Age: burials | Learning Zone

Stone Age: burials | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 4'03''

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 (...

Stone Age: flint | Learning Zone

Stone Age: flint | Learning Zone

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Two | 2015 | 3'53''

Raksha Dave explores the importance of flint to Stone Age man.

Flint | The Great British Countryside

Flint | The Great British Countryside

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2012 | 3'45''

Julia Bradbury investigates flint and the ancient craft of arrowhead making that it was used for.

Amanirenas | Africa’s Great Civilisations

Amanirenas | Africa’s Great Civilisations

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Four | 2018 | 3'21''

Henry Louis Gates Jr investigates Amanirenas, the Queen of the Kingdom of Kush.

Iron technologies | Africa’s Great Civilisations

Iron technologies | Africa’s Great Civilisations

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Four | 2018 | 2'22''

Henry Louis Gates investigates the early uses of Iron and the impacts it had on early societies in Africa.

The evolution of writing | Africa’s Great Civilisations

The evolution of writing | Africa’s Great Civilisations

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Four | 2018 | 3'42''

Henry Louis Gates Jr investigates the evolution of writing in Africa.

Early humans and the development of culture | Africa’s Great Civilisations

Early humans and the development of culture | Africa’s Great Civilisations

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Four | 2018 | 5'06''

Henry Louis Gates Jr investigates early human migration from Africa and the development of c...

The origins of humanity in Africa | Africa’s Great Civilisations

The origins of humanity in Africa | Africa’s Great Civilisations

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Four | 2018 | 5'08''

Henry Louis Gates Jr looks at the discoveries that point to Africa as the genetic home of all currentl...

What was Stonehenge? | Europe: A Natural History

What was Stonehenge? | Europe: A Natural History

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Four | 2007 | 1'52''

The history of Stonehenge.

Europe’s first farmers | Europe: A Natural History

Europe’s first farmers | Europe: A Natural History

Ancient Civilizations | BBC Four | 2007 | 3'17''

An exploration of the first farmers in Mesopotamia.

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