Clash of Ancient Warriors - Episode Guide

Modern scientific techniques are called upon to investigate the mysteries of the most legendary battles from ancient times. This episode revisits 885, when a small army in Paris repelled the Vikings, who had ravaged everything in their path while travelling up the River Seine.

Modern techniques are called upon to investigate the mysteries of the most legendary battles from ancient times. The Battle of Cannae was a major battle of the Second Punic War, taking place in August 216 BC near the town of Cannae in Apulia in south-east Italy. The Carthaginian army under Hannibal destroyed a numerically superior Roman army under command of the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro

The Battle of Thermopylae, fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I. The Persians ultimately claimed victory.

The Battle of Teutoburg Forest, contested in 9AD, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed Roman legions and their auxiliaries. Rome's eventual defeat not only stopped the growth of its empire, but also created the Latin-Germanic divide that persists in Western Europe to this day.

The Battle of Hastings, fought between the forces of William Duke of Normandy and King Harold in 1066 and regarded one of the most important turning points in British history.

The Battle of Marathon, which took place in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece. The Persian king Darius the Great sent an expeditionary force to Greece in retaliation for Athens' support of a revolt among the Greek cities of Ionia. When the Persian army landed, it was met by the Athenian army.

The Battle of Agincourt, contested in October 1415 during the Hundred Years' War between England and France. The unexpected English victory against the numerically superior French army boosted English morale and prestige.