
Ancient Powers
In an unpredictable world, our ancient powers must lay down their foundations.

In an unpredictable world, our ancient powers must lay down their foundations.

In a brutal world where nature is both friend and foe, our ancient powers take shape.

What finally killed all the woolly rhinos, mammoths, sloths and sabre-toothed cats?

Professor Alice Roberts ventures to the areas hit hardest by the cold of the Ice Age.

Professor Alice Roberts is on the trail of Ice Age beasts including the sabre-toothed cat.

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

Once upon a time, 65 millions years ago dinosaurs disappeared forever. But what if they hadn't become extinct?

The Hittites ruled an empire from Hattusha, lost for 2,500 years until its rediscovery.

Tucume, South America's largest pyramid city, has 26 structures and a history of sacrifice and neglect.

Piramesses, the grand capital of Ramesses II, was lost to time until scientists found it in the desert.

We shed fresh light on the mysteries of King Tutankhamun's tomb.

After a short reign, Tutankhamun falls dangerously ill.

Fly with a pterosaur on a journey of thousands of miles to his breeding grounds.

Meet the liopleurodon, the biggest of all the carnivores 149 million years ago.

This is the story of one of the largest animals to walk the Earth - the mighty sauropods.

Two hundred and twenty million years ago, one group of reptiles was about to take over the world.

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

A look at the science supporting Darwin's idea that humans have an ancestral connection with the ape.

The 120-million-year reign of the dinosaurs ended when mammals became the fiercest creatures on the planet.

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