Professor Alice Roberts takes to the railways of Greece and Turkey as she learns about the ancient Greek civilisation that has had such a powerful effect on our lives today.

Nine villages in southern Italy known as La Grecia Salentina have maintained aspects of the Greek language and culture for centuries.

The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an increased demand for metals, according to some of the earliest traces of of ...