Ancient Apocalypse

From DocuWiki

1 General Information
2 Cover
3 Information
4 Screenshots
5 Technical Specs
6 Links

[edit] General Information

History and Culture Documentary narrated by Hermione Norris by BBC released in 2001 - English, Chinese Multilanguage narration

[edit] Cover

[edit] Information

Throughout the ages, civilisations have risen up and then disappeared. Traditionally, the disappearance of certain ancient civilizations has been left to the theologians and historians to explain. Now scientists have entered the fray. In this series geologists, archaeologists and climatologists explain their findings. Ancient Apocalypse seeks to explain how human achievements were destroyed by the forces of nature.

[edit] Death on the Nile

Series using science to solve riddles of the ancient past. Prof Fekri Hassan attempts to determine why the Egyptian Old Kingdom, the civilisation of the great pyramids, collapsed around 2200 BC. Can science show that terrible forces of nature were to blame? Clues come from the deserts of southern Egypt, the glaciers of Iceland and a find in the Nile delta

[edit] Mystery of the Minoans

Series using science to solve riddles of the ancient past. Examining the Minoan civilisation, situated on the Mediterranean island of Crete, and how it was wiped out 3,500 years ago. The culprit was one of the biggest volcanic eruptions since the Ice Age on the nearby island of Thira

[edit] The Maya Collapse

Series using science to solve riddles of the ancient past. This programme unravels the reasons behind the disappearance of the Mayan civilisation in Central America and southern Mexico. Millions died and great cities were abandoned as people moved into the jungle

[edit] Sodom and Gomorrah

Series using science to solve riddles of the ancient past. Did the Biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah really exist? And was their destruction - believed to have been caused by the wrath of God - actually the result of an earthquake that triggered a devastating landslide?