Episode Detail: To Death and Back - Imagination
Examining the drive of people to depict death and violence in artwork and to surround themselves with images of loved ones. Included: the discovery of decorated skulls in the ancient city of Jericho; the terrifying images created by the Moche, who lived in northern Peru from 100 to 700; the vision of the afterlife by the Etruscans, from about 400; the depiction of Christ on the Cross.