Civilisations: Rise and Fall | show | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Four mighty civilisations - Rome, Egypt, Japan's Samurai and the Aztecs. Their legends remain - now priceless artefacts  | dHNfT2NOMFBjMl9vbUk

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00:00Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Aztecs of Mexico, and the Samurai of Japan.

00:24Four great civilizations, each a pinnacle of human ingenuity and achievement, each lasted

00:36for centuries.

00:40Their people thought they would endure forever, until suddenly, everything changed.

00:53These civilizations faced challenges that are all too familiar today.

01:04Climate catastrophe, pandemic, wars, challenges for which ancient societies had few solutions.

01:21But what if there was a place that had the answers to what went wrong?

01:34A place full of secrets and stories, a repository of memory stretching back through time.

01:47The British Museum, home to more than 8 million artifacts, is a record of how and why the greatest

01:56civilizations rose to power and then spectacularly fell.

02:03Its treasures are the human traces that survived disaster.

02:09But might they also hold lessons for our own future?

02:17Every civilization throughout history has had an expiry date.

02:21With great societies, the seeds of their destruction are sown within the society.

02:28They're already there.

02:30No civilization ever thinks it's going to fall.

02:35But the question is, what can we learn from the past?

02:40How do we learn from the past?

02:44Come around?

02:45How can we learn from love?

02:46How can we learn from putting native ecosystems lead that we learn from the past?

02:47How can we learn from the past?

02:49Why can we learn from the past?

02:50How can we learn from the past?

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