
Lost Worlds Vanished Lives
David Attenborough shares his enthusiasm for fossils and fossil hunting. Part 1/4 of the series.

David Attenborough shares his enthusiasm for fossils and fossil hunting. Part 1/4 of the series.

A dig hopes to excavate the 2000-year-old tomb of Qin Shihuang, China's First Emperor.

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

Iain Stewart shows the impact of salt on the existence of ice ages and the preservation of the dead in Egypt.

Iain Stewart discovers how water has played a role in history, including the fall of the Roman Empire.

Dr Iain Stewart looks at how the rocks of the Mediterranean have shaped human history.

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.

The devastating powers of the Velociraptor and Ankylosaur are examined.

The awesome power of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Triceratops are recreated.

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

The expedition finds itself trapped on the plateau, with dinosaurs and cannibals present.

Professor Challenger leads a party of explorers to a mythical South American plateau.

It may come as a surprise that we're living with many of the reptiles that survived the great extinction.

Dr Iain Stewart reveals how earthquakes have created a network of cracks in the ground.

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.