Historical Anthropology

Explore the lost world of the Maya as team of archaeologists unravel the forgotten civilization.

Follow a team of archaeologists as they unravel the mystery of how and why the stone figures on Easter Island were built.

Investigate Ancient Egypt as this four-part documentary series brings to life the land of the Pharaohs at the time of the great dynasties.

Join archaeologist Jago Cooper as he travels to Easter Island to investigate how a mysterious civilization rose and fell, and the lost kingdom they left behind.

Explore the archaeology and history of ancient Rome through the four-part documentary series The Great Empire: Rome.

Join a team of archaeologists as they explore the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, a lost city created by an ancient African civilization over 3000 years old.

Explore the lost kingdoms of Central America with archaelogist and historian Jago Cooper.

Dig through the archaeological treasures Tutankhamun left behind and experience what 3,000 years of ancient Egypt looks like.

Join historian Sam Willis as he travels the open roads, the high seas and urban alleyways to explore Britain's 17th- and 18th-century underworld of highwaymen, pirates and rogues.

Recent archaeological findings suggest the Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloans) were cannibals, but were they? Join a team of archaeologists as we dig for the truth.

Planet Egypt recounts the epic history of Ancient Egypt and its Pharaohs, from the pre-dynastic period through to the late dynasties.

The Adventure Of English explores the history of the English language throughout eight different educational episodes.

Dawn of Humanity joins a group of paleoanthropologists as they excavate fossils thought to be from one of our ape ancestors

Is there a reason for the inequality of modern world societies? Jared Diamond believes so and traces humanity's journey over the last 13,000 years to understand the roots of global inequality.

Travel to Colombia, Bolivia and Peru in South America with archaeologist Jago Cooper as we embark on an ancient civilization documentary series. Here we'll uncover the rich history, deep culture and archaeology of ancient South American civilizations.