BBC Dinos 24/7 The explorers find themselves trapped on the plateau high above the Amazon jungle, surrounded by prehistoric horrors. 2026-04-04 Dr Iain Stewart looks at how earthquakes and faults have shaped human history by bringing both life and death. 2026-04-04 Dr Iain Stewart looks at how rocks have influenced the architecture of the Mediterranean, from the pyramids of Egypt to the squares of ancient Greece. 2026-04-04 Tracing the history of cave paintings. 2026-04-04 Dr Iain Stewart examines how the rocks beneath our feet played a crucial role in determining the beliefs of ancient civilisations. 2026-04-04 Dr Iain Stewart looks at how ancient civilisations learned to exploit the water around them, from the flooding of our Stone Age ancestors' hunting grounds to the fall of the Roman Empire. 2026-04-04 Dr Iain Stewart looks at how salt has played a crucial role in the history of the Mediterranean, from the ice ages to the preservation of food and dead bodies in ancient Egypt. 2026-04-04 America was once home to such fierce predators as the giant short-faced bear and the saber-toothed tiger. 2026-04-04 In Australia 65,000 years ago, the first human explorers face a land populated with giant lizards, killer rhino-like creatures and deadly birds. 2026-04-04 When the Maori first discovered New Zealand 850 years ago, they discovered a strange landscape, inhabited by the largest bird to ever walk the Earth and the deadliest aerial predator since the time of the dinosaurs. This film tells the story of their endeavours to survive in an alien land. 2026-04-04 Chris Packham is out to determine whether the Himalayan Yeti and the Sumatran Orang Pendek exist. 2026-04-04 Chris Packham embarks on a mission to investigate the existence of the mythical giant squid. 2026-04-04 Chris Packham searches for clues related to the existence of the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland. He also visits Australia to learn about a giant lizard called Megalania. 2026-04-04 Chris Packham sets out in search of stories about Bigfoot, a mythical ape-like creature that has been the focus of many fiction novels, movies and documentaries over the years. 2026-04-04 Chris Packham explores the English countryside to learn about mythical big cats such as the Beast of Bodmin and Beast of Exmoor. 2026-04-04 Chris Packham investigates whether the thylacine, aka Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, have truly gone extinct. The species lived in Australia and Tasmania. 2026-04-04 Journey back 40,000 years and discover the great beasts of the Ice Age with Professor Alice Roberts. Alice's Ice Age odyssey begins in the land of the Sabre-tooth, North America, a continent that was half-covered by ice, up to two miles thick. Yet, it also boasts the most impressive cast of Ice Age Giants in the world. 2026-04-04 Alice ventures to the parts of the northern hemisphere, hit hardest by the cold - Europe and Siberia. High in the mountains of Transylvania, a cave sealed for thousands of years reveals grisly evidence for a fight to the death between two staving giants, a cave bear and a cave lion. Yet Alice discovers that for woolly rhinos and woolly mammoths, the Ice Age created a bounty. 2026-04-04 Even after thousands of years of ice crushing the northern hemisphere and temperatures of 20 degrees lower than those of today, many of the great giants of the ice age still walked the earth. It was only when the world had warmed up again that mammoths, woolly rhinos, sabre-toothed cats and giant ground sloths finally became extinct. Professor Alice Roberts sets off on her last voyage back to the 2026-04-04 David Attenborough learns that descendants of the dinosaur age are alive and well. David explores how they survived the catastrophes that wiped out other species. 2026-04-04 Exploring the newfound remains of a dinosaur species considered the biggest carnivore in history, all while posing the question whether they engaged in a fight against the Argentinasaurus. 2026-04-04 Bird expert Bill Oddie helps construct amazing, life-sized, bio-mechanical replicas as he presents an imaginary battle between a tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops. 2026-04-04 Here, Bill Oddie asks whether the Velociraptor was really the monstrous predator of popular legend. 2026-04-04 Part 1/4. David Attenborough shows us how ancient creatures have come to be preserved as fossils and how those fossils can shed light on characteristics of these creatures' lives, and even their death. 2026-04-04 Part 2/4. Could pterodactyls fly? And why did trilobites have such good eyes? David Attenborough investigates the secret lives of animals from the past, as told in the fossil record. 2026-04-04 Part 3/4. David Attenborough uncovers dinosaur bones in the Sahara desert and visits the biggest, most spectacular dinosaur displays in the world. 2026-04-04 Part 4/4. David Attenborough uncovers bizarre creatures of the earliest seas, tiny horses the size of spaniels and an animal that's half bird and half reptile - the rarest of them all. 2026-04-05 Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago and we have hardly ever found a complete skeleton. So how do we turn a pile of broken bones into a dinosaur exhibit? Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put skeletons back together, with muscles, accurate postures, and even - in some cases - the correct skin colour. 2026-04-05 This episode explains how the 120-million-year reign of the dinosaurs ended when mammals became the fastest and fiercest creatures on the planet. 2026-04-05 A look at the science that has proved Darwin's idea that intelligent, sophisticated humans have an ancestral connection with the ape. 2026-04-05 Alastair Sooke tells the story of Ancient Egyptian art and how it reflected the civilisation's religion, through thirty extraordinary masterpieces. 2026-04-05 Alastair Sooke explores the sumptuous treasures of the Golden Age of Egyptian art, starting with troubling psychological portraits of tyrant king Senwosret III, and ending with the golden mask of boy-king Tutankhamun. 2026-04-05 Alastair Sooke looks at how, despite political decline, the final era of the Egyptian Empire saw its art enjoy revival and rebirth. From the colossal statues of Rameses II that proclaimed the pharaoh's power to the final flourishes under Queen Cleopatra, Sooke discovers that the subsequent invasions by foreign rulers, from the Nubians and Alexander the Great to the Romans, produced a new hybrid ar 2026-04-05 Exploring fresh archaeological excavations that shed new light on the lives of those who worked tirelessly on the pyramids. 2026-04-05 Exploring the world of pet preservation. 2026-04-05 Dan meets the mummies of Tutankhamun's parents at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and discovers that they were actually brother and sister. CT scans reveal how this incestuous relationship could have been responsible for Tutankhamun's poor health. Raksha heads underground to a rare tomb excavation in the Valley of the Kings which has never been seen before on television. 2026-04-05 Picking up the story in 1323BC, the pharaoh sustains the injury that would eventually kill him. On a scan of Tutankhamun's skeleton, Dan sees a break to his thigh bone which could have been a battle injury. John visits Howard Carter's house and probes the 1920s craze of `Tutmania', when the Western world went crazy for all things Egyptian. 2026-04-05 Dan discovers a series of curious anomalies in Tutankhamun's burial, and spots that the faces on his coffins and canopic jars do not match that of the famous golden mask. Raksha looks at Seti's tomb, which shows how low quality and hurried Tutankhamun's was in comparison. John learns how to dance like an Egyptian at a funeral, and investigates the truth of the `Curse of Tutankhamun'. 2026-04-05 A journey to discover the legendary lost city of Piramesse, a magnificent ancient capital built 3,000 years ago by the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great. When it was finally rediscovered by early archaeologists, it opened up a bizarre puzzle because it was in the wrong place. 2026-04-05 In the Lambeyeque valley in northern Peru lies a strange lost world, the forgotten ruins of 250 mysterious pyramids, including some of the biggest on the planet, colossal structures made out of mud bricks. 2026-04-05 This is the story of the formidable Hittites and their long-lost capital, Hattusha, which has recently been rediscovered. Buried in this lost city is one of the greatest libraries of the ancient world, and all the secrets of this mysterious civilisation were written in two codes - one a unique form of hieroglyphs with which we can recreate the lost world of the Hittites. 2026-04-05 Alastair Sooke tells the story of Ancient Egyptian art and how it reflected the civilisation's religion, through thirty extraordinary masterpieces. 2026-04-05 Alastair Sooke explores the sumptuous treasures of the Golden Age of Egyptian art, starting with troubling psychological portraits of tyrant king Senwosret III, and ending with the golden mask of boy-king Tutankhamun. 2026-04-05 Alastair Sooke looks at how, despite political decline, the final era of the Egyptian Empire saw its art enjoy revival and rebirth. From the colossal statues of Rameses II that proclaimed the pharaoh's power to the final flourishes under Queen Cleopatra, Sooke discovers that the subsequent invasions by foreign rulers, from the Nubians and Alexander the Great to the Romans, produced a new hybrid ar 2026-04-05 Exploring fresh archaeological excavations that shed new light on the lives of those who worked tirelessly on the pyramids. 2026-04-05 In a brutal world where nature is both friend and foe, the ancient powers are just beginning. They must use all their skill and ingenuity to shape their territory and establish their cultures. 2026-04-05 In an unpredictable world, the ancient powers must lay down the foundations of their societies to show their strength, protect their people and ultimately build their way to glory. 2026-04-05 To pay for armies and other costs, the ancient powers had to tax territories and monetise their assets. But in this world of commerce, ancient societies stored their wealth in different ways. 2026-04-05 In a world where enemies watch for weakness, the ancient powers must use all their strength and cunning to defend their people, conquer new lands, and rise to the challenge of the battlefield. 2026-04-05 In an unruly world, the ancient powers must lead their people, create ways to govern and keep rebellion at bay. To achieve this, they may invent caste systems, organise gladiatorial games or turn to gods. 2026-04-05