A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.
The statue and a marble head of a Greek orator seized from the Met Museum were among dozens of items found to have been ...
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You'd never know these modern towns once helmed great empires
These little-known modern towns were once capitals of great empires.
The Roman Empire conjures up images of military power, gladiatorial contests, and feats of engineering, but to the men who ruled, life was complicated and fraught with risk. Julius Caesar, whose power ...
It took Edward Gibbon 12 years from conception to publication to produce the first volume of The History of the Decline And ...
The 1969 series of Civilisation is regarded as one of the high points of British television. Over 13 episodes, Sir Kenneth Clark gave a detailed account of the rise of Western culture. Whatever you ...
The first thing to say about Civilisations: Rise and Fall (BBC Two) is that it has nothing to do with Sir Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series Civilisation, despite the BBC telling us otherwise. In ...
The third major series in the "Civilisation" strand looks at huge change in Rome, Egypt, Japan and the lost world of the ...
The moments when four ancient worlds faced disaster are brought to life in an epic new series exploring Rome, Egypt, the Aztecs and the samurai of Japan. Drawing on the beautiful art and artefacts ...
A new statue unveiled in recent days in Iran depicts a Roman emperor in subjection to a Persian king. Erected in Tehran’s Enghelab Square, the statue titled Kneeling Before Iran shows the emperor ...
Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In the third century CE, a new dynasty known as the Sasanians came to power in ancient Iran. Within a few years, the first Sasanian ...
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