Discovery Channel to brings 70,000 years of human history!

Factual entertainment network, Discovery Channel, brings to you 70,000 years of human history to life in an awe-inspiring series that travels through time showcasing epic stories in history, populated with big characters in the places where the epic events really happened.

Travel through times and across the globe to the crucial turning points in human history with Discovery channel from every Friday at 9pm starting February 15.

The series showcases a human story of people, their civilizations, cultures, successes and crashing failures, a story that charts progress and development and change through the centuries. From the early settlers in Mesopotamia to the wonders of Babylon and Egypt, and from the French Revolution to the Industrial Revolution this series is a definitive account of human civilization.

Featuring magnificent international locations, such as the Valley of the Kings, the Terracotta Army, the Nazca lines in Peru and the Palace of Knossos, viewers are there for the biggest moments in human civilization – witnessing Caesar dying alone on the Senate floor, sailing with Christopher Columbus as he first sights America, and amid the chaos as the first economic bubble bursts. Combining dramatic reconstruction with visually stunning graphics recreating lost worlds, History of the World reveals how military campaigns, love stories, assassinations, medical breakthroughs and cataclysmic natural events have had decisive and game-changing effects on the world’s shared history.

This is history as it should be told; dramatic, revelatory and exciting – the definitive account of millennia of human civilization, which made us who we are today.

Some of the moments captured in the show are:

Episode 1 – Survival
Starting with our origins in Africa 70,000 years ago, the programme traces the story of our nomadic ancestors as they spread out around the world and settle down to become the first farmers and townspeople. From first towns to first engineering projects, viewers travel across to China to see how the Yellow River was tamed by the emperor Da Yu, to the Pyramids in Egypt, revealing the day-to-day life in ancient Egypt.

Episode 2 – Age of Empire

This episode tells the story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world. From the Assyrians' brutal King Sennacherib to the vast empire of Alexander the Great, conquerors rampaged across the Middle. With this viewers also discover the beginnings of the Olympics and marathon, from the soldiers' run back to Athens to defend their city. The programme also undertakes the journey to Buddhan Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya, India, dedicated to The Buddha who offered a new way of living with no place for violence.

Episode 3 – The Word and the Sword

This episode examines the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD. Through visiting Ashoka’s Vishali edict we see how the bloody prince Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire converted to Buddhism, in a moment of great realization after mass laughter. Travel to Egypt find out how Cleopatra presented herself as living God Isis and her ill-fated union with Julius Caesar encouraged him to be honored as a living God.

Episode 6 – Revolution

In the 17th and 18th centuries, people across the world rose up in the name of freedom and equality against the power of the church and monarchy. At the Taj Mahal in India, viewers learn how the Mughal Empire was left weakened by strict Muslim emperor Aurangzeb, leaving it an easy conquest for Britain.

Episode 8 – Age of Extremes
In this episode, the story comes up to date with the twentieth century – our age. Starting at Munich’s beer halls, we learn about Hitler’s first revolt at the Munich Putsch which resulted in his imprisonment at Landsberg, where the young Hitler was to dictate his memoirs ‘Mein Kampf’. The episode also travels to Hiroshima in Japan, the site of the world’s first nuclear bomb by Oppenheimer, thought to end all wars. Visit New York to trace the story of man versus machine, Gary Kasparov against IBM’s Deep Blue, in a chess game that gripped the world. The series ends with a 360 degree turn, finishing with the Ayoreo tribe in the Chaco region of South America, a tribe who had only recently made their first contact with the outside world.