He then looks at the Treu Head in the British Museum, and suggests that it must have been fully painted in antiquity, a finding scientists have confirmed from traces of pigment found on the bust.

Other artworks featured in this episode include the Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus, the Tomb of Eurysaces the Baker, the Alexander Mosaic and the Villa of the Mysteries of Pompeii, the Head of Augustus and the Blacas Cameo in the British Museum, and the Ara Pacis in Rome.

Other major artworks featured in this episode include the Frescoed wall from the House of Livia, the Hanging Marsyas in the Louvre, the Farnese Bull, the Warren Cup in the British Museum, Nero's Villa Poppaea, the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, the Arch of Titus, Trajan's Column, Hadrian's mausoleum Castel Sant'Angelo, sculptures of the young boy Antinous including Antinous Mondragone, and Hadrian's Villa.

He travels to Libya and discovers how late-Roman art took an African turn in the ancient city of Leptis Magna.

Other important artworks featured in this episode are the Portrait of Artemidorus, the Mildenhall Dish, the Portland Vase and the Lycurgus Cup in the British Museum, the Roman Baths in Bath, the Portonaccio sarcophagus in Rome, the Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs in Venice, the famous mosaics of Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, and the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna.