Name: Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts
Released: 2022-03-14T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Prof Alice Roberts

TV Show · Documentary · History

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 the modern world.

2022 · 44m

Starring Prof Alice Roberts

EPISODE 1

Ancient Global Warming

Alice Roberts charts the rise of civilisation from 6100 BC to the end of the Bronze Age. After a time of architecture, literature and art, most civilisations suddenly collapsed, plunging the world into darkness.

41 min
EPISODE 2

Rome's Rise and Fall

Professor Alice Roberts looks at the rise of one of history's greatest civilisations, the Roman Empire. She discovers its eventual downfall was the enemy within: the decadence and misrule of the emperors that were Rome's real curse.

41 min
EPISODE 3

The Darkest Age

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. Alice reveals how humankind continued to prosper even during the darkest of times.

41 min
EPISODE 4

God's Holy Warriors

After the collapse of Rome, Saxons and Vikings swept across Europe, but then suddenly, they seemed to disappear. Professor Alice Roberts explains how archaeologists are unravelling this very mysterious period in history.

41 min
EPISODE 5

Medieval Mystery

Professor Alice Roberts looks at one of the most cursed periods in European history: the Middle Ages. Archaeologists reveal how wars, pandemics, and cataclysmic floods toppled the medieval world.

41 min

Prof Alice Roberts

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Peter Wyles

Producer
John Farrar

Producer
Blair Krempel

Producer
Mark Wood

Producer

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