中文名:BBC：古代世界第一季
英文名: BBC:Ancient Worlds Season 1
发行时间: 2010年
制作发行: BBC地区: 英国
语言: 英语
简介:
考古学家和历史学家Richard Miles在本系列节目中，将带领观众们探寻古代文明的起源，他的旅程将从美索不达米亚创立的第一批城市开始，直到罗马帝国的覆灭。

     Ancient Worlds is a six-part odyssey from thefirst cities of Mesopotamia to the Christianisation of the Roman Empire witharchaeologist and historian Richard Miles at the helm. The series tells thestory of what Richard argues is mankind's greatest achievement – civilisation.

The series offers an epic sweep of history againsta panorama of stunning locations and bold propositions about the origins ofhuman society.

In the 21st century we might fondly imagine thatit is humankind's natural state to live together in communities that extendbeyond blood ties. As Ancient Worlds sets out to show, however, no suchassumptions were made by the first clan chiefs who decided to form communitiesin southern Iraq in 4500 BC. There is nothing natural about the city, and itsfounders understood that its very survival relied on compromise, ruthlessness,sacrifice and toil.

In the West we have consigned the term'civilisation' to the museum display case. Embarrassed by its chauvinistic andelitist connotations, we have increasingly taken refuge in more politicallycorrect and soft-focused terms such as 'culture' to explain our origins. Thisseries seeks to rescue civilisation from its enforced retirement and celebratesuch a hard-fought invention.