Curse Of The Ancients

Alice Roberts charts the rise of civilisation to the end of the Bronze Age, a time of architecture, literature, and art until the world plunged into darkness when most civilisations suddenly collapsed.

Professor Alice Roberts looks at the rise of one of history's greatest civilisations, the Roman Empire. She discovers its eventual downfall came from within as decadence and misrule by emperors proved 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, only to appear to suddenly 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, as archaeologists reveal how wars, pandemics, and cataclysmic floods upended the world.