It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a superstorm that threatens to rend the earth with an unprecedented power. Princeton Professor Ross Duffy and Judith Carr, the head of FEMA, can stop the inevitable from happening-if they have the courage to venture into the roiling blackness of the storm itself.

Looks at the history and culture of ancient China, visiting the clay soldiers of chang-An, the Great Wall and the bronze work of Anyang.

Visits the history and culture of ancient Egypt; looking at the pyramids, temples, hieroglyphs, art and culture.

Looks at the history and culture of the Inca Empire, from the mysterious city of Machu Picchu to the stone temples, to the fall of the Incas upon the arrival of the Spanish.