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17 May
17 May
Returning to Oman, Bettany follows clues to the world of the Desert Lord - the stunning desert - and meets modern Bedu who are descendants of his traditions.
17 May
The crucifixion of Jesus changed the world; how much of our understanding of this event is true, and what answers can be found in the Holy Land to back up the Bible's story?
17 May
A new excavation at Pompeii continues to unearth rich discoveries while a pioneering new investigation finds evidence that some Pompeiians survived the eruption of A.D. / C.E. 79.
17 May
Livia, the first empress of Rome, came to regret the scheming that put her son Tiberius on the throne as he and his heir Caligula dragged the empire into an age of tyranny and shocking depravity.
17 May
Two sites are emblematic of legionary life in Ancient Roman times: the fort of Vindolanda and the garrison of Lugdunum. Excavations have unearthed objects that shed light on the life of these sites.
17 May
J. Paul Getty was renowned for his wealth and frugality as well as his lack of empathy and compassion for his family. He would marry four times and sire five sons, but he died old and alone.
17 May
The crucifixion of Jesus changed the world; how much of our understanding of this event is true, and what answers can be found in the Holy Land to back up the Bible's story?
17 May
Thousands of people were dosed with LSD by the CIA; did the CIA murder its own people, poison a whole French town, experiment on New Yorkers and assassinate Bobby Kennedy?
17 May
Two sites are emblematic of legionary life in Ancient Roman times: the fort of Vindolanda and the garrison of Lugdunum. Excavations have unearthed objects that shed light on the life of these sites.
17 May
Livia, the first empress of Rome, came to regret the scheming that put her son Tiberius on the throne as he and his heir Caligula dragged the empire into an age of tyranny and shocking depravity.
17 May
A new excavation at Pompeii continues to unearth rich discoveries while a pioneering new investigation finds evidence that some Pompeiians survived the eruption of A.D. / C.E. 79.
17 May
A secret weapons programme in the heart of Austria could have ended badly for the Allies and may have indicated nuclear plans being concocted by Hitler.
17 May
Allied forces stumbled across a Nazi complex in France where three layers of protection guarded three strange things: a swimming pool, meeting rooms, and a bunker that could only house one man.
17 May
North America seemed safe from the horrors of war for much of WWII, but a chilling discovery in the furthest reaches of eastern Canada hints at the true depths of the Nazis' seafaring capabilities.
17 May
The Nazis did all they could behind enemy lines to keep the Luftwaffe in the air and set up shop in Kamienna Gora; do the abandoned plants and tunnels here hide Hitler's ultimate revenge weapon?
17 May
Researchers discovered a concrete city buried outside The Hague decades after WWII; more than 400 bunkers and defensive structures formed a vast underground network built to defend the coastline.
17 May
The Nazis built a number of radar stations and systems harnessing the power of frequencies to help them plot their next move; were they also harnessing the power of the Sun itself?
17 May
The Nazis went to great lengths to warp the natural world to their whims as they believed that ruins that could prove the Aryans to be the superior race lay buried in the soil.
17 May
The triumphal architecture of the Nazi regime hints at a deeply dystopian future; what might a Nazi city and the world, have looked like had Hitler succeeded in vanquishing his enemies?
17 May
The struggle for victory necessitated development of gun technologies; new inventions would emerge on the battlefields and at times surprise soldiers on both sides of the fight.
17 May
World War II fostered the emergence of both iconic and unusual tanks that were each engineered with distinct aims; we explore diverse tank innovations and the overall trajectory of armoured warfare.
17 May
To determine how Der Führer's secrets may have shaped the man behind the tyrant, we need to examine his troubled childhood and sociopathic personality.
17 May
The Western and Soviet Allied forces meet at Torgau on the Elbe river; the Western troops, having landed at D-Day, descend on Germany from the West while the Soviets march from the East.
17 May
WWII was a war in the skies; though the Treaty of Versailles had prevented the Germans from developing new weapons, they sponsored air clubs and pushed for supremacy in the air.
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