Egypt became a unified country five thousand years ago and - until the arrival of Alexander the Great in 332 BC - remained a fiercely independent land with its own very distinctive art, religion and culture. Egypt was the superpower of its day and her kings were treated as demigods throughout the...
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Aired: Mar 2, 2005These three peoples lived in a vast area of modern-day Central and South Amer...
Aired: Mar 9, 2005The city of Rome was founded on the banks of the Tiber in 753 BC and for a th...
Aired: Mar 16, 2005Programme explored the technological advances of ancient India.
Aired: Mar 23, 2005There has always been a great debate as to who kicked off civilisation: was i...
Aired: Mar 30, 2005Egypt became a unified country five thousand years ago and - until the arriva...
Aired: Apr 6, 2005The ancient Greek civilisation flourished for about a thousand years, not as ...
Aired: Apr 13, 2005A lot of people still think that we were just woad-covered savages before the...
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Current Status: Ended
Network: BBC Two
Production Country: United Kingdom
Genres:Documentary
