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  1. Rome: Empire Without Limit (2016)

    aka: Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit

    Subject
    Classical studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 235 minutes), £14.99

    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,...

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  2. Talking Stone: Rock Art of the Cosos (2014)

    Director
    Paul Goldsmith
    Subject
    Archaeology; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 53 minutes), $219.00 [Institutional rate]; $19.95 [Home use]

    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,...

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  3. Caligula with Mary Beard (2013)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £12.99

    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...

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  4. Byzantium: A Tale of Three Cities (2013)

    Producer
    Anna Cox; Jack MacInnes
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

    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...

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  5. Sacred Wonders of Britain (2013)

    Subject
    History; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

    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...

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  6. Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town (2013)

    Director
    Paul Elston
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

    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...

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  7. Andrew Marr’s History of the World (2012)

    Director
    Neil Rawles; Robin Dashwood; Renny Bartlett; Guy Smith
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 467 minutes), £39.99

    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...

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  8. Inside the National Archaeological Museum, Athens (2012)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    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...

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  9. Egypt’s Lost Cities (2011)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £16.33

    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...

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  10. Etruscan Odyssey (2011)

    Director
    Rachel Lyon; Christine Intagliaata
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 18 minutes), $150.00

    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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