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Contents
1 General Information
2 Cover
3 Information
3.1 Come Together
3.2 The Age of Iron
3.3 The Greek Thing
3.4 Return of the King
3.5 The Republic of Virtue
3.6 City of Man City of God
4 Screenshots
5 Technical Specs
5.1 SD Version
5.2 HD Version
6 Links
6.1 Further Information
6.2 Release Post
6.3 Related Documentaries
6.4 ed2k Links

General Information
History Documentary hosted by Richard Miles, published by BBC in 2010 - English narration

Cover

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Information
Ancient Worlds An illuminating and spectacular six-part odyssey tracing the development of Western civilisation –
from the first cities of Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire.

Academic and archaeologist Richard Miles travels through the Middle East, Egypt, Pakistan and the Mediterranean to
discover how the mainstays of our society – community, democracy, commerce and technology – were forged and
fought over in a series of classical cultures.

Ancient Worlds tells the amazing stories of disappeared, ruined and modern cities – from Ancient Iraq to Augustan
Rome, and from Phoenicia and the city states of Greece to today’s Damascus – and reveals the compromise,
ruthlessness, sacrifice and toil that made each city work.

In an epic sweep of history against a panorama of stunning locations, Richard Miles, with the help of local experts
and archaeologists, brings these legendary civilisations back to life to show how the successes and failures of the
ancients shaped the world that we have inherited.

Come Together

Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles explores the roots of one of the most
profound innovations in the human story - civilisation - in the first episode of an
epic series that runs from the creation of the first cities in Mesopotamia some
6,000 years ago, to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Starting in Uruk,
the 'mother of all cities', in southern Iraq, Richard travels to Syria, Egypt, Anatolia
and Greece, tracing the birth and development of technology and culture.

The Age of Iron

Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles looks at the winners, losers and
survivors of the great Bronze Age collapse, a regional catastrophe that wiped out
the hard-won achievements of civilisation in the eastern Mediterranean about
3,000 years ago. In the new age of iron, civilisation would re-emerge, tempered in
the flames of conflict, tougher and more resilient than ever before.

The Greek Thing

Richard Miles explores the power and the paradox of the 'Greek Thing' - a
blossoming in art, philosophy and science that went hand in hand with political
discord, social injustice and endless war. He paints a fascinating picture of the
internal and external pressures that fuelled this unique political and social
experiment, one that would pioneer many of the political systems that we still live
with today, from oligarchy to tyranny, from totalitarianism to democracy.

Return of the King

In Richard Miles's epic story of civilization, there have been plenty of examples of the great men of history, but none
came close to the legend of Alexander of Macedon, known to us as 'the Great'. Uniting the fractious Greek city-states,

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he led them on a crusade against the old enemy, Persia, and in little more than a
decade created an empire that stretched from Egypt in the west to Afghanistan in
the east. But it was Alexander's successors, the Hellenistic Kings, who had to
make sense of the legacy of this charismatic adventurer. By knuckling down to the
hard graft of politics, taxation and public works, they created something far more
enduring than a mere legend - they built a civilization. Richard traces Alexander's
battle-scarred route through Turkey, Syria and Lebanon to Egypt and ultimately to
the western Punjab, Pakistan, where he discovers fascinating traces of a city
where Greek west and Buddhist east were united in an intriguing new way.

The Republic of Virtue

How did an insignificant cluster of Latin hill villages on the edge of the civilised
world become the greatest empire the world has known? In the fifth programme
of the series, archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the phenomenon
of the Roman Republic, from its fratricidal mythical beginnings, with the legend
of Romulus and Remus, to the all too real violence of its end, dragged to
destruction by war lords like Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar. Travelling to
Sicily and North Africa, Richard tells the story of Rome's century-long struggle
for dominance with the other great regional power, Carthage. It was a struggle that
would end with the total destruction of this formidable enemy and the
transformation of landlubber Rome into a seapower, and the Republic into an Empire. But with no-one left to beat, the
only enemy that Rome had left was itself.

City of Man City of God

Richard Miles explores the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, which at the height
of its power, extended the benefits of its civilisation to a staggering 60 million
subjects and citizens, from Hadrian's Wall to the banks of the Euphrates. The
archaeologist and historian also learns how the expansion of Christianity filled a
gap left by the Roman multi-god belief system, eventually leading to the
instalment of Constantine as the first Christian emperor

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Technical Specs
SD Version

Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4

Video Bitrate: 1566 kbps
Video Resolution: 720 x 416
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.731 (16:9)
Frames Per Second: 25
Audio Codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192 kb/s AC3 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2ch
Audio Languages: English
RunTime per Part 59.mins
Number Of Parts: 6
Part Size: 746 MB
Source: DVD
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HD Version

Video Codec: x264 CABAC [email protected]

Video Bitrate: 4000 Kbps
Video Resolution: 1280x720
Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192 Kbps CBR 48KHz
Audio Channels: 2
Run-Time: 59 mins
Framerate: 25FPS
Number of Parts: 6
Part Size: 1.72 GB
Source: HDTV
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Links
Further Information

History of the Ancient World (/extlink.php?http://historyoftheancientworld.com/)

Release Post

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MVGroup.org (ed2k) (http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php?showtopic=37824)

MVGroup.org (torrent) (http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php?showtopic=37823)
DocsPT.com (http://www.docspt.com/index.php?topic=17892)

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