Program
00:47 - 01:49
Archaeology: A Secret History
The Power of the Past
Series, Documentary, History
Richard Miles shows how 20th-century attention turned from civilisation and kings to the search for the common man against a background of science and competing political ideologies.
01:49 - 02:46
Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy
Series, Documentary, Ancient history
Dan meets the mummies of Tutankhamun's parents at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and discovers that they were actually brother and sister. CT scans reveal how this incestuous relationship could have been responsible for Tutankhamun's poor health. Raksha heads underground to a...
02:46 - 03:44
Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy
Series, Documentary, Ancient history
Picking up the story in 1323BC, the pharaoh sustains the injury that would eventually kill him. On a scan of Tutankhamun's skeleton, Dan sees a break to his thigh bone which could have been a battle injury. John visits Howard Carter's house and probes the 1920s craze of...
03:44 - 04:42
Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy
Series, Documentary, Ancient history
Dan discovers a series of curious anomalies in Tutankhamun's burial, and spots that the faces on his coffins and canopic jars do not match that of the famous golden mask. Raksha looks at Seti's tomb, which shows how low quality and hurried Tutankhamun's was in comparison. John...
04:42 - 05:40
Horizon
Crater of Death
Series, Science, Technology, Documentary
Scientists investigate the meteorite impact responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs. According to a theory, the event was triggered by a comet hitting the present-day Gulf of Mexico.
05:40 - 06:50
The Mystery of Rome's X Tomb
Special, Documentary, History
Historian Dr Michael Scott unlocks the secrets of a mysterious tomb containing over 2,000 bodies unearthed within one of the catacombs of Rome. The bodies are found to have been wrapped in elaborate plaster and cloth shrouds, liberally sprinkled with ground up amber. Working...
06:50 - 07:51
Archaeology: A Secret History
The Search for Civilisation
Series, Documentary, History
Archaeologist Richard Miles shows how discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began, as empires competed to 'own' the past.
