Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts S1E1: Ancient Global Warming
- Aired: 2022-03-14
- Time: 21:00:00
- Runtime: 60 minutes
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Overview
Professor Alice Roberts charts the rise of civilisation from 6100BCE to the end of the Bronze Age. A time of great work in architecture, literature, and the arts, until 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.