Bettany starts with Aphrodite's Rock and the island's worship of the Goddess. She goes to the port city Kourion, the Troodos Mountain range, and finally the UN administered buffer zone in Nicosia, frozen in time.
Bettany visits Bodrum and discusses the ignored ancient Carians which gave us the word Mausoleum. Next, she talks about the Lycians. Finally, she visits Troy and Ephesus.
Bettany Hughes travels to Cappadocia by jeep and visits settlements carved into rocks. Then she makes her way to the 10,000-year-old temple and settlement of Göbeklitepe. In eastern Turkey, Bettany Hughes explores Sanliurfa, one of the Middle East's most important pilgrimage cities. Aboard a boat on the Euphrates, Bettany reaches Zeugma, an ancient Roman border town that has sunk into the river.
Albania has been marked by powerful empires through its history. Bettany visits Roman ruins in Butrint, the Albanian Alps, former local capital Gjirokaster during Ottoman times, and bunkers built during Communism.
Bettany visits Gobustan National Reserve to see ancient markings. Azerbaijan is part of the silk road. Shaki is a city built on silk. Yanardag has perpetual fires. She travels around Baku. She visits Shusha in the Karabakh mountain range.
