Megapolis: The Ancient World Revealed

In the year 3000, Athens, a small hamlet located in the province of Attica, will succeed in transforming itself into one of the largest megalopolises of Antiquity. She will be the founder of the ancient Greek civilization, a brilliant and unique civilization with a thousand-year-old influence. It is the story of an inventive people determined to understand and develop new technologies and progress. Its influence, its glory and its power will be reflected in its architectural gems. The Parthenon, a temple made up of 22,000 marble blocks, the Piraeus, a small port that has become a port of war that can accommodate more than 200 boats, and the theater of Dionysus bear witness to this remarkable city of builders.

In the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great is preparing to build the most brilliant and the most cosmopolitan of the mega-cities of Antiquity, Alexandria. Emerging from nothingness, this perfectly designed city will emerge from the ground; it will ultimately accommodate up to 1 million inhabitants and will revolutionize ancient urban planning thought throughout history. Ideally placed between two "seas", between East and West, Alexandria will be the pivot of the Mediterranean world. This unique position will endow it with riches and allow it to build incomparable constructions: the Great Library, a true center of universal knowledge, the sumptuous temple of Sarapeion and the monumental lighthouse of Alexandria, ready to illuminate the world for centuries.

Located in Central America, Tikal is one of the largest of the ancient cities of the Mayan civilization. Occupied for more than a millennium, Tikal, founded in the 8th century BC and nestled in the jungle of Guatemala, will have up to 12,000 structures and reach over 2 million inhabitants. It reveals its extraordinary pyramid-temples, designed with human power alone. Thanks to new technologies, the ancient Mayan city is revealed there, entirely reconstituted in 3D synthetic images.

Thanks to reconstructions in synthetic images, this documentary retraces the manufacturing secrets of the largest and most exceptional city of Antiquity: Rome, the capital of the Mediterranean world. Three of its most emblematic monuments come to life. The Pantheon and its majestic dome, the sumptuous palace of Nero which covered a quarter of the city, and finally the legendary Colosseum, the largest Roman amphitheater ever built