Alice Roberts begins her Ottoman adventure in Adana, southern Turkey. She finds an historic mosque and meets some local experts. She takes a train across the Taurus Mountains to Konya, where she learns about whirling dervishes.
Alice Roberts is on a train to Ankara to visits the tomb of Ataturk who saw out the end of the Ottoman empire. In Bursa she visits the tomb of Osman, the empire's founder. Two cities and two leaders, 600 years apart.
Alice Roberts arrives in Istanbul by rail to learn about how the strategic Ottoman assault to wrestle the city from the Romans. She also learns about the Ottoman's genius architect Sinam, before taking the sleeper train to Sofia.
Alice Roberts is in Bulgaria's capital Sofia to learn how the empire was controlled from Istanbul. The city landscape today is almost entirely Soviet. After taking a train to Nis, Serbia she visits the shocking Skull Tower.
In her final train journey Alice Roberts arrives at the western front of the Ottoman Empire, Budapest to find out how it all ended. In Romania's Timisoara she goes on a search for Ottoman remnants, after everything was destroyed ...almost.
