Curse Of The Ancients: BCSeason 1, Episode 1

Professor Alice Roberts charts the rise of civilisation from 6100BCE to the end of the Bronze Age. A time of great architecture, literature and the arts, most of these great civilisations suddenly collapsed, never to rise again, plunging the world into a dark age. Alice reveals how scientists are uncovering what happened to these civilisations - the devastating flood that separated Britain from Continental Europe - the cataclysmic volcanic eruption that wiped out Minoan Civilisation and the discovery of Europe's earliest battlefield - throwing new light on disasters that shaped the world today.

Curse Of The Ancients: BC was broadcast on SBS ONE at Sunday 9 October 2022, 08:35.