Building the Ancient City

The first town of over a million people was build more than 2000 years ago. Without any of our modern conveniences and what we would consider necessitates today, how did they function? Professor Andrew Wallace Hadrill explores the remains of these ancient metropolises, explaining how to make a city work without the benefits of modern technology. How did Rome house, heat and feed its people? How did Athens operate without electricity, gas, railways or turbines? And what can we learn from these ancient civilisations? (Viasat)