Recounts the discovery of artifacts related to Queen Nefertiti, who wielded considerable power alongside her husband, the Pharaoh Akhenaten. She is known also a beautiful queen, even attested in poems of her husband.

Explores the architecture and building processes, as they are being rediscovered, of Gothic Cathedrals in the Middle Ages.

Explores the changes, especially the health effects, involved with the shift towards settled life and agriculture in the early urban community of Catalhoyuk.

This clip disccuses the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia was the world's first recorded city.

Ancient Mesopotamia proved that fertile land and the knowledge to cultivate it was a fortuitous recipe for wealth and civilization. Learn how this "land between two rivers" became the birthplace of the world's first cities, advancements in math and science, and the earliest evidence of literacy and a legal system.