Category: Ancient Civilizations
221 B.C. The Great Wall of China
Each turning point in history has behind it a story and a set of principal characters whose dilemmas and conflicts form its dramatic coreand...
Episode 10 Tibet The End of Time
Time Life's Lost Civilizations combines cutting edge digital effects technology (for 1995) with powerful dramatization. Dazzling spectacles re-create rituals and eventsoriginal location cinematography in...
Angkor Wat
Certain landmarks have captured the imagination and awe of modern architects and engineers around the world as they work to solve the mystery of...
Shangri-La
Michael Wood goes in search of four of the world's most famous myths. These gripping adventures take the viewer to some of the most...
Genghis Khan Rise of the Conqueror
Follow the rise to glory of Genghis Kahnthe 13th century Mongol leader whose empire covered four times the area conquered by Alexander the Great....
China’s Lost Pyramids
In Chinathere exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt's Valley of the Kings. In 221 B.C., China's first Emperor united warring...
Episode 2 Survival
The Forbidden City in Beijing was an ancient palace whose very name inspired awe and fear. Until the 20th century the Forbidden City was...
Khubilai Khan Fall Of The Mongol Hordes
700 years ago the world was dominated by one superpower the Mongol Empire. Only one conquest still eluded their leaderKhubilai Khan - the mystical...
Episode 16 The Samurai
Each half hour episode looks at a major fighting people or force and charts the reasons for their rise to dominance and subsequent fall....
Episode 3 The Return of the Barbarians
Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the Westit flourished not through conquest and exploration, but by fierce...