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13 Jul
The Mughals created the most dazzling empire India had ever seen - from the Taj Mahal to intricate miniatures of court life - but did they bring civilisation to India, or tear it apart in the process?
13 Jul
Can a 3,000-year-old solid gold hat really see into the future? How could a tiny metal cube have won the war for Hitler? How could an intricate and complex clock have solved a billion-pound problem?
13 Jul
Ramesses II was Egypt's greatest pharaoh; his capital city, Pi-Ramesses, was known to be a magnificent city, yet it seemed to have completely disappeared over the passage of time.
13 Jul
Did the city of Sodom ever exist? At Tall el-Hammam in modern-day Jordan, archaeologists have uncovered a once-thriving Bronze Age city that they believe could be Sodom.
13 Jul
The Nibelungs: Germany's greatest legend still has treasure hunters under its spell. With the help of ancient scripts and divining rods, they search for Siegfried's legendary golden treasure.
13 Jul
What is the purpose of the strange bronze Roman dodecahedrons that have baffled archaeologists for centuries, and is a Middle Eastern metal scroll a guide to billions of dollars of buried treasure?
13 Jul
Don Wildman examines a barrel connected to a WWII plot, a traffic light that sparked an urban revolution, and the portrait of a doctor who was embroiled in a 19th-century tale of biological warfare.
13 Jul
Like it or not, warfare, conflict and the need to explore the unknown is the catalyst for human progress in technology. The fact is that mankind is at its most inventive when it's being destructive.
13 Jul
Both a museum and the official palace of the Spanish royal family, the Palacio Real features armour, artworks and treasures that were once the private possessions of Spain's kings and queens.
13 Jul
Did the city of Sodom ever exist? At Tall el-Hammam in modern-day Jordan, archaeologists have uncovered a once-thriving Bronze Age city that they believe could be Sodom.
13 Jul
Pakistan is portrayed as a country of bombs, beards and burkhas all too often; Sona Datta shows how it used to be the meeting point for many faiths and has an intriguing multicultural past.
13 Jul
Can a golden disk billions of miles away reveal if we are alone in the universe, and what are the secrets in the bizarre 600-year-old Voynich Manuscript that no-one can read?
13 Jul
Bettany starts this episode on a stretch of the Nile that few visitors ever get to see, but this was once Egypt's main highway, used by Cleopatra to travel the country and be seen by her people.
13 Jul
The Great Wall of China was built with the blood and toil of millions of workers; fundamental to everything we build, the genius of the Wall is often overlooked.
13 Jul
In 1952, a team of archaeologists discovered a copper scroll in a cave high above the Dead Sea; it was classified as a Dead Sea Scroll, but this was no Biblical text - it was a treasure map.
13 Jul
Pakistan is portrayed as a country of bombs, beards and burkhas all too often; Sona Datta shows how it used to be the meeting point for many faiths and has an intriguing multicultural past.
13 Jul
Bettany discovers how Malta is a cultural hub laden with some of the world's most precious treasures; this is an island where civilisations from all corners of the Earth have met and cross-fertilised.
13 Jul
Christopher Clark visits some of the diverse and historic UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India and tries to answer the question as to what unites the 1.4 billion people on the subcontinent.
13 Jul
The Mughals created the most dazzling empire India had ever seen - from the Taj Mahal to intricate miniatures of court life - but did they bring civilisation to India, or tear it apart in the process?
13 Jul
Can a 3,000-year-old solid gold hat really see into the future? How could a tiny metal cube have won the war for Hitler? How could an intricate and complex clock have solved a billion-pound problem?
13 Jul
Bettany arrives in Luxor, the 'world's greatest open-air museum'. Bettany's crew take a break whilst she heads to the Valley of the Kings; this is where the pharaohs were buried for 500 years.
13 Jul
Standing at a colossal 479 feet, the Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure for over 3000 years; this monumental feat of ancient engineering is a tribute to the engineers of ancient Egypt.
13 Jul
Ramesses II was Egypt's greatest pharaoh; his capital city, Pi-Ramesses, was known to be a magnificent city, yet it seemed to have completely disappeared over the passage of time.
13 Jul
Did the city of Sodom ever exist? At Tall el-Hammam in modern-day Jordan, archaeologists have uncovered a once-thriving Bronze Age city that they believe could be Sodom.
13 Jul
The Nibelungs: Germany's greatest legend still has treasure hunters under its spell. With the help of ancient scripts and divining rods, they search for Siegfried's legendary golden treasure.
13 Jul
What is the purpose of the strange bronze Roman dodecahedrons that have baffled archaeologists for centuries, and is a Middle Eastern metal scroll a guide to billions of dollars of buried treasure?
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