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The Pyramid of Cheops. The largest and most enigmatic of them all. Possibly the greatest monument of all time and truly a tomb fit for a Pharaoh...or was it? Despite finding a sarcophagus in the King's chamber, many experts now believe that Khufu, the Pharaoh at the time, was never actually interred there. But if that's the case, where is he?

Britannia - AD 60. When her husband dies, Boudicca, queen of the Iceni, expects Rome to enter into a new power-sharing agreement with her people. However, when Rome reneges on the agreement and her daughters are raped by Roman soldiers, Boudicca raises an army to fight back against the occupation. The Britannic tribes rise up and join her in a campaign against their oppressors, and soon her enormous army is sweeping across Britannia in an unstoppable campaign of brutality.

Savage Eden. A time between Ice Ages. Golau, a Cro-Magnon hunter gatherer, is pulled from a freezing lake and nursed back to health by a group of wandering Neanderthal. Miles away, his clan’s peaceful existence is torn apart by an attack from an unknown predatory species and many are taken beyond the ice wall as prey. Golau and some of the remaining men set out in pursuit and are joined by a pod of Neanderthal, seeking answers of their own.

Gerusalemme è sotto attacco. Solo i cavalieri della croce possono salvarla. 1177 d.C. Un vento di guerra soffia verso la Terrasanta e tutto il regno di Gerusalemme teme un'immi­nente invasione da parte delle orde di Saladino. Voci, infatti, parlano di guerrieri saraceni che hanno già devastato con la loro furia città e villaggi. E così il panico si diffonde rapi­damente, come un male oscu­ro che serpeggia fino al trono di Baldovino, il re adolescente afflitto dalla lebbra.