All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Egypt, Rome, Nepal

    • December 26, 2022
    • First Choice Superchannel

    An examination of how the people of ancient Egypt, Rome & Nepal treated their dead.

  • S01E02 Zoroastrians, Neanderthals, The Bo

    • December 30, 2022
    • First Choice Superchannel

    An examination of how the ancient Zoroastrians, Neanderthals & The Bo treated their dead.

  • S01E03 Vikings, Inca, Tel Banat

    • January 2, 2023
    • First Choice Superchannel

    Explorers uncover one of the largest Incan burial sites at Ancon on the Peruvian coast. It may be proof that the Chacoans were a matriarchal society.

  • S01E04 Chachapoya, Celts, Carthage

    • January 9, 2023
    • First Choice Superchannel

    In 1928, an earthquake shift uncovers a row of painted warriors: 2m statues encasing mummies from an ancient civilisation; curious bone arrangements in Winterborne are somehow linked to intermingled ashes from dig sites in Slovenia.

  • S01E05 Qin Shi Tomb, Soma, Chinchorro

    • January 16, 2023
    • First Choice Superchannel

    The first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, rests in a tomb so large that the archaeological dig could last a century; researchers discover that the oldest of the Chinchorro mummies are children.

  • S01E06 Maya, Khonkho Wankane, Xiongnu

    • January 23, 2023
    • First Choice Superchannel

    Researchers find new evidence at the sacrificial alter El Castillo that could shed light on the Maya.