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8Alexandria: The Greatest City
Alexandria: The Greatest City
Bettany Hughes goes in search of this lost civilisation, revealing the story of a city founded out of the desert by Alexander the Great in 331 BC to become the world's first global ...
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7From Paris to Rome with Bettany Hughes
From Paris to Rome with Bettany Hughes
Bettany Hughes follows in the footsteps of 18th century aristocrats going on a Grand Tour as she travels through France and Italy to see how travel, the arts and culture and the finest ...
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6.8The Nile: Egypt’s Great River with Bettany Hughes
The Nile: Egypt’s Great River with Bettany Hughes
The historian explores the land that inspired her passion for the past by embarking upon a 900-mile journey along the river Nile and examining how it shaped ancient Egypt.
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7.3Genius of the Modern World
Genius of the Modern World
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
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8Greek Island Odyssey
Greek Island Odyssey
Historian Bettany Hughes has embarked on an epic, personal journey. Inspired by Homer's The Odyssey, she will sail the unpredictable Mediterranean seas, tracing Odysseus's long journey ...
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6.5Genius of the Ancient World
Genius of the Ancient World
Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy - Buddha, Socrates and Confucius.
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9Pompeii’s Final Hours: New Evidence
Pompeii’s Final Hours: New Evidence
Exploring life in Pompeii during the final days of the doomed city.
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8.28 Days That Made Rome
8 Days That Made Rome
Bettany Hughes relives eight pivotal days that defined the Roman Empire and made it the world's first superpower.
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7.5Ancient Impossible
Ancient Impossible
Ancient Impossible, the new H2 series, picks up where HISTORY’s long running Ancient Discoveries left off. In this next generation of storytelling, Ancient Impossible reveals how many ...