Readers can journey back in time to ancient Greece in this visually stunning introduction to one of the world's founding nations that features fascinating information, statistics and facts showing how the ancient Greeks transformed our world.

Fascinating facts about the ancient world. It traces the rise and fall of all the major civilizations, from the first farming villages of the Middle East to the end of the Roman Empire, and builds up a picture of everyday life right across the globe.

Is there a God? It's an eternal question that all ancient civilizations have answered. To answer these questions, this program travels back thousands of years to the rise and fall of five ancient civilizations.

Photographs and text describe the birth of civilization in Sumer, the pharoahs in Egypt, the Aegean Empire, and civilization in Asia.

Photographs and text cover the history of Persia, Greece, the early Romans, and the unfolding of Eastern religions.

Could an ancient skull found in Egypt's valley of the Kings truly belong to Rameses II's eldest son, the young prince whose death was described in the biblical story of Exodus?

Covers the early history of Greece, Rome, India, Parthia, and China from 400 BC to 200 AD.

Traces the history of mankind from the Roman decline through the renewal in the Middle East, the Chinese kingdoms, and the Americas between 200-600 AD.

"Twenty-five-hundred years ago, civilizations around the world entered a revolutionary new era that overturned old order and laid the foundation for our world today. In the face of massive social changes across three continents, radical new forms of government emerged; mighty wars were fought over trade, religion, and ideology; and new faiths were ruthlessly employed to unify vast empires. The histories of Rome and China, Greece and India--the stories...