一起连环凶杀案吸引了警长索恩（大卫·莫瑞瑟 David Morrissey 饰）的注意，这位穷凶极恶的凶手手中已经有了三条人命，然而，第四名受害者却侥幸逃过一死。警方和民众都认为这是凶手的百密一疏造就的结果。然而，可怕的是，没过多久，索恩就发现，犯错的不是凶手，而恰恰是自己，因为尽管保住了一命，但这位幸存者却无法提供任何情报。 几起在同一时间、使用同一手法在两个不同地点作案的谋杀案让警长索恩十分警觉，随着时间的推移，迷雾渐渐拨开，他发现，自己所要面对的并非仅仅一名嗜血残暴的杀人魔王，而是两个在暗地里相互勾结、相互鼓励的反社会分子。
Ancient Worlds is about people and places, politics and economics, art and war, trade and technology, but above all it’s the story of the painful birth and difficult growth of a radical idea first tried and tested some six thousand years ago, and which we are still struggling with today; civilisation. Civilisation has not come easily; it’s something we’ve had to fight hard to achieve, and even harder to maintain, and the greatest threats to it have come from our own talents for destruction. But when we’ve managed to get it right, the benefits have been enormous. When we talk about the ancient world we tend to think of rare and exotic artefacts or the monumental remains of epic architecture; but these are just the empty shells that got left behind when the tide of history turned! The living creatures, the civilisations, that once inhabited these shells were rarely if ever static or stately; they were dynamic, chaotic, and always threatening to spin out of control, because civilisation is based on an improbable idea; that strangers can live and work together in dense urban settings, forging new allegiances that replace the natural ties of family, clan or tribe. It’s an idea we’re still coming to terms with today, but one of the best ways to understand the challenges that are involved is to look at how our ancestors tackled them the first time around. From ancient Iraq to Imperial Rome, Ancient Worlds examines how our ancestors struggled with the levers of religion and politics, art and culture, war and diplomacy, technology and trade in order to keep the complex machinery of their civilisations turning over. Their insights and blind-spots, their breakthroughs and dead ends, their triumphs and disasters are the milestones on the long and winding road that leads directly from their ancient to our modern world.
