The epic story of how humans made art and how art made us human. Combining aspects of history, archeology, forensics, sociology and aesthetics, acclaimed art historian and University of Cambridge lecturer Dr. Nigel Spivey leads an extraordinary video expedition that spans 100,000 years and five continents- from the vast galleries of prehistoric art in the caves of Altamira and Lascaux, to astonishing Native-American and African rock paintings, to the treasures of Ancient Egypt and Classical Greece, right up to the pop culture and advertising imagery that bombards us in the digital age.