Modern science reveals the environmental forces that have shaped human history.
EPISODE 1
Bronze Age Catastrophe
In the last decade, the search for data about the planet's environmental history has raised questions about how climate change has influenced human civilizations in the past.
EPISODE 2
Cities and Empires
The 1st Millenium BCE in the Mediterranean is the birth of the modern world.
EPISODE 3
Empire and Epidemics
With the help of top scientists and historians including Kyle Harper, author of bestseller The Fate of Rome, look into what science is now telling about the impact of disease in toppling the Roman Empire.
Lewis Dartnell
Chris Naunton
Vasiliki Kassianidou
Mark Macklin
Elizabeth Fentress
Alice Roberts
Mike Slee
Loren Baxter
Steve Burns
Jonathan Drake
Stefanie Fischer
