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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prof Alice Roberts
Host
Peter Wyles
Producer
John Farrar
Blair Krempel
Mark Wood
