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Secrets of the Pyramids
Exploring fresh archaeological excavations that shed new light on the lives of those who worked tirelessly on the pyramids.
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Archaeology: A Secret History
Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past.
Archaeology: A Secret History
Archaeologist Richard Miles shows how discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began, as empires competed to 'own' the past.
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs
Three hundred million years ago, the forests were ruled by insects. This was a world in which giant dragonflies battled with two-foot-wide spiders.
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs
On the supercontinent Pangaea, early therapsids, creatures more similar to mammals than reptiles, fight for survival alongside other animals. In the carboniferous swamps, insects and arthropods take over and grow into giants.
Walking with Dinosaurs
The life of the first reptilian carnivores on Earth, told through computer animation.
Walking with Dinosaurs
The Jurassic period saw the advent of the largest and strongest dinosaurs that ever roamed the Earth.
Walking with Dinosaurs
A look at the world as it was 149 million years ago - in the late Jurassic Period. The old continents have broken up and much of the land is under water. Huge shallow seas have supported a revolution in marine life.
Walking with Dinosaurs
With wings longer than those of a small plane, pterosaurs were the largest creatures ever known to have flown.
Walking with Dinosaurs
This programme looks at the Cretaceous period, 106 million years ago. Volcanic activity forces the continents apart, and dinosaurs diversify into a range of species to cope with environmental extremes.
Walking with Dinosaurs
It is the late Cretaceous period and Tyrannosaurus rex is the top predator, but the Earth is poisoned by volcanic activity and a comet strikes.
Lost Cities of The Ancients
A journey to discover the legendary lost city of Piramesse, a magnificent ancient capital built 3,000 years ago by the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great.
Lost Cities of The Ancients
In the Lambayeque valley in northern Peru lies a strange lost world, the forgotten ruins of 250 mysterious pyramids, including some of the biggest on the planet, colossal structures made out of mud bricks.
Horizon
Scientists investigate the meteorite impact responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs. According to a theory, the event was triggered by a comet hitting the present-day Gulf of Mexico.
The Mystery of Rome's X Tomb
Dr Michael Scott investigates the secrets of a tomb containing over 2,000 bodies in one of the catacombs of Rome.
Lost Worlds: Vanished Lives
David Attenborough shows us how ancient creatures have come to be preserved as fossils and how those fossils can shed light on characteristics of these creatures' lives, and even their death.