
Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles traces the development of Western civilization, from the first cities in Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire. In this six-part series, Miles travels through the Middle East, Egypt, Pakistan and the Mediterranean to discover how the challenges of society -- religion and politics, art and culture, war and diplomacy, technology and trade -- were dealt with and fought over in order to maintain a functioning civilization. Stories are told of disappeared, ruined and modern cities, from ancient Iraq to modern Damascus, to reveal how successes and failures of the ancients shaped the world today.
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Air Date: 2010-11-10
Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles travels to Syria, Egypt, Anatolia and southern Greece to examine how the fi...
Air Date: 2010-11-17
Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the collapse of the Bronze Age 3,000 years ago, and how the civili...
Air Date: 2010-11-24
Richard Miles examines the paradoxes of Greek civilisation. The archaeologist and historian explains how despite bein...
Air Date: 2010-12-01
Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles explores the triumphs and legacy of Alexander the Great, the conqueror who ...
Air Date: 2010-12-08
Richard Miles travels to Sicily and North Africa to explore the rise of the Roman Republic, from its fratricidal myth...
Air Date: 2010-12-15
In the last of the series, archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. ...