Category: Near East

Episode 1 Dreams of Avarice
In The Ascent of Money Niall Ferguson traces the evolution of money and demonstrates that financial history is the essential back story behind all...

Episode 6 Valley of the Kings
Series on Ancient Egypt. Valley of The Kings - This episode explores the Valley of the Kings the royal necropolis of the pharaohs. A...

Episode 1 Artemis Mausoleum and Zeus
They were built by the ancients in the time before Christ to a scale that is unbelievable. They dared their creators to push engineering...

Episode 8 Alexander’s Tomb
Series on Ancient Egypt. Alexander's Tomb - This instalment looks at the ongoing hunt for the tomb of Alexander the Great....

Episode 2 Pyramid,. Gardens, Rhodes, and Lighthouse
They were built by the ancients in the time before Christ to a scale that is unbelievable. They dared their creators to push engineering...

The Brainy Barbarians
Monty Python's Terry Jones invites you on an entertaining expedition through Roman history from an entirely different perspective - that of the Barbarians. Far...

Episode 1 Building the Dream
For more than 1,000 years, the Byzantine Empire was the eye of the entire world - the origin of great literature, fine art and...

Episode 1
The Cleopatras was a 1983 BBC Television eight part historical drama serial. Written by Philip Mackie. Set in in ancient Egypt during the latter...

Episode 2 Heaven on Earth
For more than 1,000 years, the Byzantine Empire was the eye of the entire world - the origin of great literature, fine art and...

Episodes 1 to 4
Series in which intrepid presenter Kate Humble follows the ancient frankincense trade route of Arabia across the amazing modern world of the Middle East....