Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts

S01E04 God’s Holy Warriors

Professor Alice Roberts uncovers how archaeologists are illuminating one of history's most enigmatic eras. Following the fall of Rome, Europe experienced three tumultuous centuries marked by the invasions of Saxons and Vikings, after which these pagan cultures seemingly vanished. By exploring recent findings of Viking settlements and burial sites in Scandinavia, along with the final resistance of paganism in Poland against the spread of Christianity, Alice highlights the crises and calamities that contributed to the formation of modern Europe.