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- The series Metropolis takes us to the very heart of urban life in antiquity and in the 15th century. It examines a crucial step in the history of civilization and culture: Mankind has advanced to a settled lifestyle, allowing him to organize large social alliances which extend far beyond family and clan. The consequences are critical changes in all facets of life.
- A look at daily life in ancient Rome.
- 2003–200744mTV EpisodeHome of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and a great library, Alexandria is explored, and a woman is determined to become one of the learned of that city.
- 2003–200744m6.2 (6)TV EpisodeA brief account of the birthplace of democracy, the restoration of several Athenian structures, and the purported blasphemy of Phryne, an influential courtesan.
- 2003–200744mTV EpisodeThe rise, daily life, and fall of ancient Carthage in Tunisia.
- 2003–200743mTV EpisodeA brief look at the architecture and last days of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul.
- 1994–TV EpisodeThe story of the discovery, in ancient subterranean caves, of the oldest testimonies to human -animistic- religion: the realistic, partially symbolic Ice Age paintings (mainly of Animals). These paintings were found in Altamira (Cantabria, northern Spain, 1679), Lascaux and Chavet (1984, also France, 35,000 years; twice as old, yet already showing perspective). Modern technological means show (dramatized/computer-animated scenes) the artists' methods, how life is thought to have been like then and which concepts prehistoric man apparently had. At least as old are carved figures from the southern German Danube region; shamanistic tribal religions (as in Siberia) may, to a degree, continue their tradition. The main cult purposes plausibly included mystic initiation.