Bettany Hughes Movies

Professor Bettany Hughes takes viewers on a journey of discovery as she investigates 10 of the greatest and most intriguing Egyptian mummies – and the secrets that lie beneath the…

In this fascinating documentary, historian Bettany Hughes travels to the seven wonders of the Buddhist world.Her journey begins at the Mahabodhi Temple in India, where Buddhism was born; here Hughes…

Bettany Hughes goes in search of this lost civilisation, revealing the story of a city founded out of the desert by Alexander the Great in 331 BC to become the…

Historian Bettany Hughes profiles three great thinkers of the ancient world – The Buddha, Socrates and Confucius.

Using an octocopter, historian Bettany Hughes and aerial archaeologist Ben Robinson, explore various sites of historic interest from a new perspective, the air.

Bettany Hughes searches for the truth about the ‘Golden Age’ of Ancient Athens, investigating how a barren rock wedged between the East and West became the first democracy 2,500 years…