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Mary Beard presents a four part investigation into ancient Rome, exploring the myths and origins of the city, the physical world of the Roman Empire, identity and citizenship within the Roman Empire and,...
Hidden away in the canyons of a top-secret military base on the edge of the Mojave Desert is the largest concentration of rock art in North America. Created over thousands of years by a now vanished culture,...
Professor Mary Beard presents this historical documentary about Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus: more commonly known as Caligula. After only four years in power Caligula was...
This series sees historian Simon Sebag-Montefiore exploring the history of the city which has been the capital of three empires: Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman. He examines the faiths and traditions which have...
Neil Oliver presents this series of three programmes which examines the beliefs of the ancient peoples of the British Isles. Oilver visits a number of sacred sites which archaeological evidence has connected...
Television documentary. Cambridge Professor of Classics, Mary Beard, presents new insights into the lives of the people who lived and died in Pompeii, based on the discovery of 54 skeletons in a cellar in...
Andrew Marr presents this BBC series which covers over 70,000 years of human history. Using dramatic reconstruction and CGI technology, each of the eight episodes focuses on a dominant theme of human and...
The National Archaeological Museum, Athens displays 11,000 exhibits from 7000 BC to the Roman Conquest. This special episode of Museum Secrets takes a look at some of these objects, including a Greek...
The Pyramids, the Sphinx and the tombs of the Pharaohs are all fabulous monuments to Egypt’s past. But according to one scientist, the astonishing antiquities already discovered are just a tiny percentage...
The mysterious Etruscan civilisation dominated the central region of ancient Italy, around what is now the heartland of Tuscany - before and during the Roman dynasties. While the origins of the Etruscans are...
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