Season I (3 x 60 min, HD)
Season II (6 x 60 min, HD)
The amazing history behind incredible Ancient Megastructures.
Every Ancient Megastructure represents a pinnacle of human achievement; each has a story behind it demonstrating ingenious solutions to seemingly impossible challenges. From the Great Pyramid to Angkor Wat, every episode chronicles how each astonishing building was constructed, following the story on a number of levels: scientific, engineering and human. These are dramatic epics, full of jeopardy, wrong-turns, and the flashes of inspiration that turned amazing dreams into an even more awesome reality.
A Canada - UK International Treaty Coproduction with Darlow Smithson Productions.
Produced in Association with National Geographic Channels International and History Television.
Season II Featured clips
The tale of the building of the most spectacular and impossible monument in the Americas: the sacred mountain-top city of Machu Picchu.
An ambitious young king who seizes the Khmer throne by murder commissions the largest stone temple in the world.
The Roman Emperor Justinian orders the rebuilding of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul in a quest for eternal glory, both for God and for himself.
Built against the backdrop of war and terror, Muhammad I constructed the greatest example of Islamic military architecture in Europe.
In the unforgiving deserts of Petra, the Nabataeans carved the glorious royal city from rock.
After a great fire engulfs London in 1666, Christopher Wren dreams of raising a new cathedral to rival the grandeur of Ancient Rome.