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Presenter: Various
Everywhere you go in the world, you'll find monuments
to a different age. Each civilization has left its mark,
from the New World Mayans to the mysterious statues
on Easter Island in the Pacific. Great
Historic Sites takes you on a journey through history
and around the world, giving you insight into ancient
people and the world they lived in.
We start with Stonehenge in England,
one of the earliest remaining monuments to ancient man.
Around the same time in Africa, the ingenuity of the
Egyptian master builders resulted in the Great
Pyramids at Giza and the Valley of
the Kings. Travelling through time, we explore
the power and sophistication of the Greek empire, while
thousands of miles away the Qin dynasty in China was
building the incredible terracotta warrior
tomb.
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The terracotta warriors of Xi'an, Central China from
the Qin Dynasty
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We visit Petra, a city carved out
of glowing red rocks by the Nabatean people, deep in
the Jordanian desert. But the ancient world's most powerful
civilization was the glorious Roman Empire, whose monuments
are found throughout Europe, the Middle East and North
Africa. Once the might of Rome was in decline, the growing
Christian and Islamic faiths started creating their
own magnificent monuments. Heading east, we explore
the majesty of Ankor Wat in Cambodia,
and in the New World, the mystery of the Inca
and Maya cities of the Americas. We
end our historic journey with the lost civilization
of Easter Island. |
