Treasures with Bettany Hughes

Bettany travels to Greece - an epic landscape and the birthplace of an astonishing culture that changed the way the Western world thinks.

Bettany discovers how Malta is a cultural hub filled with precious treasures, from an underground temple to a romantic royal hideaway.

Bettany visits Gibraltar's mysterious Vanguard Cave to see the world's earliest Neanderthal art and views one of the first reports of Admiral Nelson's death.

Bettany greets the full moon on sacred Delos and samples Roman thermal baths on the Italian island of Ischia.

Bettany visits a dig in Istanbul containing artifacts from multiple eras and follows in the footsteps of one of her heroes, Byzantine empress Theodora.

Bettany travels to the Arabian Peninsula and its magical landscape of weathered rocks and desert sands - once the frontier of mighty empires.