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Back to Search212. Who Were The Three Wise Men?
Season 13 Episode 1
The truth behind the story of the Three Wise Men has more connections to empire than many of us realise…
Featured in every Nativity scene in school pl…
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211. A Beautiful World: The Art of Akbar
Season 12 Episode 8
As a dyslexic child, Akbar explored his curiosities about the world through visual wonders, and by having literature read aloud to him. As an adult, …
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210. Akbar the Great: Revolutionising Religious Tolerance
Season 12 Episode 7
Raja Birbal is a man of such exceptional wisdom and wit that he will become the stuff of legends. Birbal is just one of the Nine Gems Akbar surrounds…
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209. Akbar the Great
Season 12 Episode 6
It’s 1542, and the baby who will grow up to be Akbar the Great is born into nothing and nowhere. His father, Humayun is on the run to Persia and the …
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208. Humayun Reconquers India
Season 12 Episode 5
Kicked out of India, Humayun roams the desert as a nomad, accompanied by his young pregnant wife, his court poets, and his library camels. Sher Shah …
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207. The Stargazing Hippie vs The Lion King
Season 12 Episode 4
On his death bed, Babur tells his eldest son not to fight with his brothers however awful they will be to him. As his father passes away, Humayun inh…
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Introducing... The Rest Is Classified
It's Iran 1951. Mohammad Mosaddegh, fuelled by an ever-growing nationalism, has just been elected Prime Minister. Immediately he chooses to nationali…
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206. Babur: Guns, Gardens & Diamonds
Season 12 Episode 3
Against all odds, Babur defeats Sultan Lodi and captures Delhi. But despite the wealth that India can provide him, Babur hates his new home. He compl…
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205. Babur: The Taking of Delhi
Season 12 Episode 2
“In Herat a man can’t stretch out his leg without touching a poet’s backside” - Babur
It’s 1506, and Babur leaves his beloved base in Kabul to visit h…
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204. Babur: The First Mughal Emperor
Season 12 Episode 1
“To wander from mountain to mountain, hopeless and homeless, has nothing to recommend it” - Babur
Before he became the father of the Mughal dynasty, a…
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