History Channel Documentaries

Secrets of the Aegean: Apocalypse (2009x5)

: 02, 2009

A clay tablet baked by apocalyptic fires; strange stone fortresses built hundreds of miles above sea level; hieroglyphs that tell of a terrifying invasion. Are these the clues that will unravel the mystery behind the greatest cataclysm of the ancient world? Travel back to 1200 BC, the era of the Great Pyramids and the world's first written languages - and witness an ancient Armageddon, where nearly every known civilisation was destroyed. What could have caused it? Plague? Pestilence? Natural Disaster? The wrath of avenging gods? The theories were many, but nearly every scenario now includes one mysterious and massively destructive factor - a force only the Egyptians would survive long enough to name: The Sea People...