Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts
Medieval Mystery
S1 E5:
The period known as the Middle Ages is considered one of the most cursed periods in European history. In the final episode of this enthralling documentary series, Alice Roberts reveals how wars, pandemics and natural disasters toppled the world of our ancestors. Black Death wiped out up to half of Europe’s population and climate change caused cataclysmic floods. How did Western society survive?