Clash of Ancient Warriors - Season 1

Modern scientific techniques are called upon to investigate the mysteries of the most legendary battles from ancient times. This episode revisits 885, when a small army in Paris repelled the Vikings, who had ravaged everything in their path while travelling up the River Seine.

Modern techniques are called upon to investigate the mysteries of the most legendary battles from ancient times. The Battle of Cannae was a major battle of the Second Punic War, taking place in August 216 BC near the town of Cannae in Apulia in south-east Italy. The Carthaginian army under Hannibal destroyed a numerically superior Roman army under command of the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro

The Battle of Thermopylae, fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I. The Persians ultimately claimed victory.

The Battle of Teutoburg Forest, contested in 9AD, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed Roman legions and their auxiliaries. Rome's eventual defeat not only stopped the growth of its empire, but also created the Latin-Germanic divide that persists in Western Europe to this day.