All Episodes

Jesus of Nazareth

The Spartan Warrior

Demeter with Natalie Haynes

Origins of Sparta

The Roman Secret Service

The Vandals: Destroyers of Rome

Keros: Bronze Age Mystery

Treasures of Pompeii

Kazakhstan's Valley of Kings

Persephone: Queen of the Underworld

The Illyrians: Pirates of the Adriatic

Origins of Gaza

Human Evolution: Dragon Man

Witches

The Sahara: Traders and Travellers

The Murders of Alexander the Great

How to Survive the Ice Age

Hades: King of the Underworld

Ötzi the Iceman

Tyre: Jewel of Phoenicia

Gladiators in Britain

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Jesus, John the Baptist & Essenes

Roman Emperors with Mary Beard

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of Qumran

Ramesses the Great

Harappan Civilisation

The Roman Legionary

Liangzhu: Cradle of Chinese Civilisation?

Medusa

Origins of Olive Oil

Pompeii: The Eruption of Vesuvius

Maya Sacrifice & Warfare

Homo floresiensis: Early Human ‘Hobbit’

Sex Work in Pompeii

Attila the Hun: Terror of Rome

Gladiators of Pompeii

Attila the Hun: Scourge of God

Pompeii: Life Before the Eruption

Cyrus the Great

Chichén Itzá

Poseidon: God of the Sea

Stonehenge

Homo Naledi: The First Burials?

Jersey: Ice Age Island

Helen of Troy with Natalie Haynes

Chandragupta Maurya: Hero of India

The Lighthouse of Alexandria

Lion Man: The First Myth?

Persia and the Bible

Achilles

Origins of Water

The Picts

The First Spears

Human Origins: Australopithecus

Ravenna and the Fall of Rome

Boudica's Battle of Britain

Origins of Horse Riding

Babylon and the Bible

The Cyrus Cylinder

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Poverty Point: Centre of Ancient America

Nebuchadnezzar

Messalina: Empress of Rome

Alexander The Great's Sex Life

King Midas

Lilith: Mesopotamian Demoness

Athens: Birthplace of Democracy?

Knossos

The First Toolmakers

Iron Age Scotland: Clachtoll Broch

The Great Fire of Rome

Athena: Goddess of Wisdom

Rise of the Assyrians

Alexandria: The Sunken City

Troy

Roman Beast Hunts

Sardinia: Mysteries of the Bronze Age

Shetland: Edge of the Prehistoric World

The Philistines

Ares: God of War

Septimius Severus

Dinosaurs: The Last Days

The First Humans

Shirin: Heroine of Iran

The Origins of Buddhism

The Bantu Expansion

The Colossus of Rhodes

Cleopatra's Daughter

Homo Erectus

Aphrodite: Goddess of Love

The Nazca Lines

Feathered Dinosaurs

Babylon

The Great Serpent Mound

The Parthenon

Orkney: Centre of the Stone Age

The Kings of Rome

Hephaestus: God of Fire

The First Writing

Spartacus