Archaeologist Ben Robinson takes to the skies over Wiltshire to uncover fresh insights into one of the world’s most iconic prehistoric sites—Stonehenge.
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Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts episode 4 – Alice’s thrilling adventure reaches its grand finale in the captivating city of Aswan, known for its rich heritage and the historic quarries that provided the exquisite granite used in the construction of the country’s awe-inspiring Ancient Egyptian monuments. With its towering obelisks and majestic temples, Aswan stands as a testament to the remarkable craftsmanship and enduring legacy of the ancient civilization. As Alice explores the city’s labyrinthine streets, she is enthralled by the stories whispered by the ancient stones, each one bearing witness to the grandeur and glory of a
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The Latest Secrets of Hieroglyphs: In 1822, Jean-François Champollion became the first person to decipher hieroglyphs in over a thousand years. Now, a new generation of Egyptologists is learning more about the people who wrote them. The great history of Egypt is inscribed on its monuments, temples and tombs, but hieroglyphs – the written language of the ancient Egyptians – fell silent until 1822 when a young French scholar, Jean-François Champollion, became the first person to decipher their texts for over a thousand years. Champollion’s insights and the work of other scholars helped bring an entire civilisation back to life.
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Pavlopetri – The City Beneath the Waves: Just off the southern coast of mainland Greece lies the oldest submerged city in the world. It thrived for 2,000 years during the time that saw the birth of western civilisation. An international team of experts uses cutting-edge technology to prise age-old secrets from the complex of streets and stone buildings that lie less than five metres below the surface of the ocean. State-of-the-art CGI helps to raise the city from the seabed, revealing for the first time in 3,500 years how Pavlopetri would once have looked and operated. Underwater
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Secrets of Pompeii’s Greatest Treasures episode 2: Bettany Hughes unearths some fascinating stories from the devastated city, from its famous villas to tragic human casts. The streets and houses of Pompeii offer a mesmerising window into the life and times of the ancient Romans. Bettany Hughes heads to the Ancient Roman City of Pompeii. Once compounded by volcanic ash, now a treasure trove of history. Almost 2,000 years on, Bettany explores the city to find remnants of the Roman empire, revealing the secrets of those who lived there, and really how different ancient Rome is to our world
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Secrets of Pompeii’s Greatest Treasures episode 1: Bettany Hughes heads to the Ancient Roman City of Pompeii. Once compounded by volcanic ash, now a treasure trove of history. Almost 2,000 years on, Bettany explores the city to find remnants of the Roman empire, revealing the secrets of those who lived there, and really how different ancient Rome is to our world today. Exploring the villas usually off-limits to the public and the chilling remains of those that tried to escape the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, Bettany builds up a perhaps not so idyllic picture of life in Pompeii
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Ancient Civilizations – Interstellar Links to Göbekli Tepe: Was Göbekli Tepe built as a sacred interstellar portal connecting the people of Earth with extraterrestrial civilizations? As we conclude Season One, our team of researchers explain that Göbekli Tepe is aligned with the Cygnus constellation and constructed in harmonic resonance with the periodic signals beaming from one of the constellation’s stars. These signals have been found to be transmitting multiples of eleven, which can be found in Pascal’s triangle, and encoded within the placement of the megalithic pillars. As the world’s oldest monument, built in the cradle of civilization, this discovery
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Ancient Civilizations – Entrances to Inner Earth: Is there an ancient code which points the way to inner earth civilizations like Agharta and Patala? Oral traditions from indigenous cultures, throughout the world, all point to ancient advanced civilizations thriving deep under the earth. With advances in technology and spelunking, scientific communities are confirming that the Earth’s crust is filled with immense caverns which form vast subterranean networks. Our team of scholars have combed through these details to find the overlap between ancient tales and scientific discoveries. We take this one step further as we posit that these entrances to inner
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Ancient Civilizations – Decoding the Great Sphinx: The great sphinx of Giza, the oldest known monument from the ancient Egyptian world, stands as a symbol of the arcane mysteries still waiting to be unearthed. Could the truth about our past, and Enki’s knowledge given to humanity, be locked in an ancient chamber situated below the great beast’s paw? We examine mounds of evidence, in the face of contradictory conclusions, to try and determine its age and decode its original purpose. Since times immemorial, humankind has searched for the answers to who we are, where we came from
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Ancient Civilizations – New Understandings of the Great Pyramid: Our scholars of ancient history present a new theory concerning the Great Pyramid of Giza that you may not be familiar with. The greatest secret may not be in its construction, but as a powerful device which enabled the rebirth of Osiris as Horus. Its shape and location harbor mathematical constants, only recently discovered, that can be found throughout nature and across the universe. Such secrets may have been known to Nikola Tesla who sought to tap into the electromagnetic currents of the earth to bring limitless electrical
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Ancient Civilizations – Lost Cities Beneath the Ocean: Arcane accounts from Egypt, Greece, Rome and Sumeria tell startling similar stories of the oceanic destruction of advanced civilizations which vanished into the world’s oceans and forgotten to the ravages of time. New technology scouring the vast depths are discovering the ruins of these lost lands. To the disbelief of established scientific communities, the evidence gathered correlates to surviving tales of an antediluvian world predating the establishment of Göbekli Tepe. These lost cities tell of the ongoing conflict between Enki and Enlil hold the secrets to unlocking the ancient code of human
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Ancient Civilizations – Tower of Babel: Legends tells us that language once unified all of humanity, but a detrimental blunder led to this once-unifying force becoming a means of mass confusion. Beyond the biblical account, researchers found most modern languages do indeed stem from a singular matrix language. Could it be this mother language was a gift from ancient gods who seeded the birth of humanity and gave rise to ancient civilizations? By understanding the power of the spoken word and rediscovering this ancient, forbidden language, we may find returning to unification is an individual journey beholden with many paths
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