The story returns to Mesopotamia. Here, in the early second millennium BC, Babylon rises to power. The episode further considers societal and technological developments for all of mankind at the height of the Bronze Age.

Old Kingdom Egypt. Great kings and great pyramids. Egypt makes its lasting mark on human history.

The land of milk and honey. Natufian culture transitions over thousands of years into the Semitic Canaanite culture of the Levant.

Another civilization springs up alongside the Nile River. But before there were pharaohs, there was a lot of history in Egypt, from the Paleolithic to the opening of the Bronze Age.

The first known civilization arises in Mesopotamia around the year 3,500 BC.

A brief review of the unprecedented Near Eastern transition into urban life.

A semi-legendary tribe, far to the north of lands previously described, expands into Europe and Asia carrying language and culture that will be passed down all the way to the present.

The Natufian culture, the Rise of Jericho and Catal Huyuk, Neolithic religion and the cult of the skulls.