Investigating the Viking journey along the Seine and the attack upon Paris in 885.

Exploring how the strategy of encirclement devised by Hannibal left 50,000 Romans dead on the battlefield of Apulia in 216 BC.

Using modern science to investigate the mysteries of the most legendary battles from ancient times, a group of experts look at the Battle of Thermopylae, fought between the Achaemenid Persian Empire and an alliance of Greek city-states in 480 BC.