Ella Al-Shamahi

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According to recent science the Neanderthals are not the knuckle-dragging apemen of popular imagination. In fact they are our distant ancestors. About 2% of the DNA of most people is of Neanderthal origin—and it continues to affect us today. Ella Al-Shamahi enlists the skills of Andy Serkis, the master of performance capture, and a group of experts to investigate Neanderthals.

An ambitious seven-year natural history series documenting six of the planet's most threatened ecosystems and meeting the people fighting to restore the Earth’s delicate balance.

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals humanity's incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution – and how the story is stranger and more surprising than ever imagined.

Exploring the bustling oases where elephants, lions, leopards and hundreds of other species meet and compete for water.

In 1922, the tomb of Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun was unearthed. Soon tales spread of a deadly jinx. Now the extraordinary scientific truth of the 'Pharaoh's Curse' is revealed.

Archaeologist and explorer Ella al-Shamahi heads for South America, in search of legendary cities and civilisations

Using original excavation data combined with cutting edge computer graphics, we recreate the grave of a mighty viking warrior woman as never seen before.

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi explores the gripping science behind an astonishing Egyptian legend as she investigates whether toxins inside Tutankhamun's tomb and among the pharaoh's treasures could explain a number of mysterious deaths.