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Journeys Through Time: A chat with bestselling author Bettany Hughes

Yi-Hwa Hanna chats with Bettany Hughes, a historian, broadcaster, and bestselling author about travelling the world to tell stories. You’ve travelled across continents to research...

Architecture of the Old World We’ve Lost Forever

Lost beneath Sudan’s sands: Scientists discover 6,000-year-old massive monuments from a forgotten civilisation

Around the World in 80 Treasures: An End of the Year Project

Here's an idea for an end-of-the-year world history project. In Virginia, we still have a couple of weeks of school although we have completed the AP tests and the end of the year...

The Grand Egyptian Museum and Other Adventures in Egypt ~ by Lesley Downer

‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair.’Ramses II at Luxor - Ozymandias, King of KingsOzymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818The Grand Egy...

Returning: Stuff The British Stole

Season 3 of history-busting series spans the Caribbean, Asia and Egypt.

LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES’ new history of Babylon is rich in fascinating detail

Cardiff University professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones turns to one of the most storied cities of the Mesopotamian cradle of civilization: Babylon. The post LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES’ new...

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried with Pages from Homer’s Iliad: When Literature Guided Souls Throug...

Renaissance Europe admired ancient Rome, ancient Rome admired ancient Greece, and ancient Greece admired ancient Egypt. But the admiration could actually go both ways in that last...

Mysteries Of Old Europe – Lost Ancient Non-Hierarchical Civilization And Its Giant Structures Investigated By Archaeolog...

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a giant structure built by one of the most mysterious and unusual civilizations that lived in Europe several thousan...

TV review: Tucci in Italy and The Future with Hannah Fry

ANOTHER season of Tucci in Italy (all episodes streaming on Disney+) enabled me to indulge my enduring affection for short, Italian men (I am married to one, after all) and for the...

What lies beneath the Mediterranean will shock you: Ancient shipwrecks expose gold, coins, and forgotten histories

London After Dark Series | Extra Context

In Search Of Vestigial London

Remnants of the old city, hiding in plain sight.

What Happens When a Globalized World Collapses: Archaeologist Eric Cline Explains How Bronze Age Civilizations Adapted,...

We live, as we’re often told, in the era of globalization. In fact, we’ve been told it so often over the past few decades that it now hardly seems like an observation worth making....

Long-Lost Civilization In Georgia’s Highlands Left Behind Cyclopean Architecture And Artifacts

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have uncovered compelling evidence that fundamentally reshapes our understanding of Georgia’s ancient past. In the highlands of sou...

How archaeology turns political in the West Bank

In the Judean desert, a complex past is being unearthed into a complicated present. Correspondent Seth Doane journeys to Israel and the West Bank, talking with archaeologists, resi...

Face-to-face with the past: MARY BEARD interviewed

With a new book and accompanying tour this month, Mary Beard talks to Buzz about finding the ancient world in the lives of ordinary people. The post Face-to-face with the past: MAR...

TV review: Pilgrimage: The road to Holy Island and Harry Clark Goes to Rome

PILGRIMAGE: The road to Holy Island (BBC2, Easter Day) returns for another outing, uniting celebrities from diverse theological backgrounds for a journey following in the footsteps...

Get a university-level education on buried viking treasure for free

If you're an archaeology buff or get your ya-yas out by reading about ancient European history, you've likely heard of the Cuerdale Hoard. It's a massive collection of over 8,000 s...

Lost Roman Mining City in Spain Revealed Through Thousands of Pottery Fragments

Lost Roman Mining City in Spain Revealed Through Thousands of Pottery Fragments

The Penny Dreadfuls & The Feast of Blood | London After Dark 3 | European History

Buried for 2,500 years: giant lost structure discovered beneath Egypt’s Nile Delta

TALKING CLASSICS

Someone who taught ancient Greek and Roman culture at Cambridge for 50 years isn’t going to say there is no point, but Beard is quick to assure readers, in the breezy tone familiar...

Next Week: Legends of the Lost Ark

I can’t count how many times I’ve been asked: where do you think the ark of the covenant is now? The group usually laughs when I say I’m pretty sure I saw it being hidden away in a...