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Explore how ancient catastrophes shaped the modern world in this five-part series. Professor Alice Roberts reveals the evidence for wars, earthquakes, floods and famines across Europe and North Africa.
In this exciting five-part history series, 'Curse of the Ancients' Professor Alice Roberts reveals how scientists are unearthing the evidence for cataclysmic events in the past and their disastrous consequences.
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- 2022-03-14
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Professor Alice Roberts charts the rise of civilisation from 6100BCE to the end of the Bronze Age. A time of great work in architecture, literature, and the arts, until most of these great civilisations suddenly collapsed, never to rise again, plunging the world into a dark age. Alice reveals how scientists are uncovering what happened to these civ...
Professor Alice Roberts looks at the rise of one of history’s greatest civilisations, the Roman Empire, asking, what was the secret to its success? Experts explore the empire, investigating newly discovered battlegrounds in Britain and Spain to find out how Rome defeated her enemies, making her one of the world’s first superpowers. Alice also disco...
The disastrous final days of the Roman Empire are examined in this episode, including the cataclysmic power vacuum following its collapse and the effects felt even beyond the Empire’s borders. Once known as the Dark Ages, this period saw kingdoms rise and fall, cities wiped out by invasion, and plague ravage Europe and the Middle East. Despite thes...
Professor Alice Roberts reveals how archaeologists are shedding light on one of history’s most mysterious periods. For three hundred years after the collapse of Rome, Saxons and Vikings rampaged through Europe, but then these pagan societies seemed to disappear. From new discoveries of Viking settlements and burials in Scandinavia, to the last stan...
In the final episode of Curse of the Ancients, Professor Alice Roberts looks at one of the most cursed periods in European history - the Middle Ages. Archaeologists reveal how wars, such as the Mongol invasion of Hungary, the Black Death that wiped out up to half of Europe’s population, and climate change causing cataclysmic floods – turned our anc...
Explore how ancient civilizations were affected by wars, pandemics, floods and climate change in this five-part series. Historian Alice Roberts uses modern science to uncover the causes and consequences of the curses of the ancients.
In Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts, Professor Alice Roberts reveals how scientists are unearthing evidence of cataclysmic events of the past and their disastrous consequences. While ancient societies couldn’t truly understand the cause of these events, they could have considered themselves cursed.
Mar 6, 2022 · In the brand new five-part history series Curse of the Ancients, Professor Alice Roberts reveals how scientists are unearthing the evidence for cataclysmic e...
Apr 11, 2022 · Professor Alice Roberts reveals how scientists are unearthing the evidence for cataclysmic events in the past and their disastrous consequences. From wars to earthquakes and floods to famines – these are the events that have helped shape our modern world.
