
Journeys From the Centre of the Earth
Cave painters scraped their colors from rocks, but later civilizations used rocks to broaden their palettes.

Cave painters scraped their colors from rocks, but later civilizations used rocks to broaden their palettes.

Dr Stewart reveals how rocks inspired the Egyptians to build pyramids and the Romans to build perfect circles.

Earthquakes are behind everything from catastrophic volcanoes to natural health spas.

A documentary following the investigation of a 4,000-year-old body found preserved in a bog.

Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put dinosaur skeletons back together.

Over 150 million years during the Jurassic period, the first giant killers stalked the Earth.

Recent discoveries reveal the extraordinary ability of dinosaurs to adapt and survive.

The southern continents are home to some of the undisputed heavyweights of the dinosaur world.

How attention turned from civilization and kings to the search for the common man.

How discoveries in the 18th century overturned ideas of when and where civilization began.

Richard Miles explores how archaeology began by trying to prove a biblical truth.

Christianity filled a spiritual vacuum at the heart of the Roman civilization.

Exploring the Roman Republic from its mythical beginning to violent end.

Tracing the career of Alexander the Great from Greece to Pakistan.

Art, philosophy and science blossom while political discord, social injustice and war erupt.

Winners and losers from the Bronze Age collapse; emergence of the Iron Age.

The earth split in India 66 million years ago in a disaster that may have caused the end of the dinosaurs.

David Attenborough investigates the discovery of a giant dinosaur find in Argentina.

Unraveling the secrets of the 5,000-year-old corpse found frozen in an Alpine glacier.

According to new evidence, the Woolly Mammoth went on roaming until about the time the Pyramids were built.