Curse Of The Ancients: Middle AgesSeason 1, Episode 5

Alice Roberts looks at one of the most cursed periods in European history - the Middle Ages. Archaeologists reveal how wars, such as the Mongol invasion of Hungary, the Black Death that wiped out up to half of Europe's population and climate change causing cataclysmic floods - turned the world of our ancestor’s upside down. Death was a brutal part of everyday life. With such calamities, Western Society was on the verge of collapse. So how did it survive? And how did these catastrophes lay the foundation for the modern world?

Curse Of The Ancients: Middle Ages was broadcast on SBS ONE at Sunday 6 November 2022, 08:33.