The History Channel to Premiere New Three-Night Television Event “Ancient Empires” on Monday, September 4 @ 8PM ET/PT [VIDEO]

The HISTORY® Channel will premiere “Ancient Empires,” a new, three-night television event airing across three consecutive nights on Monday, September 4, Tuesday, September 5, and Wednesday, September 6 @ 8PM ET/PT. Produced by Ample Entertainment, in association with GroupM Motion Entertainment, this seven-hour miniseries explores the foundations of the greatest empires of all time and the incredible stories of the three iconic rulers who amassed unbelievable power and transformed the world. Night one kicks off with Alexander the Great, followed by Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.

While their lives and legacies live on today, their stories have never been told like this. “Ancient Empires” will shed new light on the way that history remembers Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Cleopatra through exceptional, dramatic narrative sequences and explosive premium battle scenes as well as insightful expert interviews and the latest contemporary scholarship. To survive and succeed they had to be strategic, ruthless, and charming. Each episode chronicles the ruler’s rise to influence and astonishing power with the events and choices that led to their eventual fall. Expert interviews include Pulitzer Prize®-winning biographer and historian Stacy Schiff, retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO General Wesley Clark, retired Major General Marcia Anderson, the first African American woman to achieve the rank and renowned classicist and Cleopatra expert Dr. Shelley Haley to name a few.

For more information, please visit: https://www.history.com/shows/ancient-empires

“Ancient Empires” is produced for The HISTORY® Channel by Ample Entertainment, in association with GroupM Motion Entertainment. Ari Mark, Phil Lott, and Joey Allen serve as executive producers for Ample Entertainment. Richard Foster and Chet Fenster serve as executive producers for GrouPM Motion Entertainment. Roel Reine serves as director for the series. Eli Lehrer, Mary E. Donahue, and Jennifer Wagman are executive producers for The HISTORY Channel.