In this new Channel 5 Series, Bettany embarks on the journey of a lifetime, sailing across the Aegean Sea, through the Greek Islands on her very own Odyssey. Exploring Greece from the time of the Ancients right up to the present day, Bettany shares a few a new discoveries and relatively little known sites such as those in Ikaria, Samos and Chios. all whilst uncovering fascinating new archaeological discoveries and revealing hidden treasures and secrets, accompanied by some s

Alexander the Great, it was still asserted into the early 19th century, had built the gates that separated East and West at the eastern edge of the Caucasus: what is now Azerbaijan lay beyond. In ‘Tales from the Caspian Sea’, Bettany Hughes investigates the rich cultural history of the Caspian, a region which nourished the ancient world’s oldest theocracy, in the form of a Zoroastrian state, and pioneered an early Muslim-majority democracy in 1918. Her investigation of Azerba