1000 BC-AD 400
Time Traveller's Guide to the Roman Empire
Everything you need to make your way through the vast Roman empire and avoid its pirates, plagues, fires, conspiracies and, above all, wars.
The First Emperor
The story of the ruler who unified China in the 3rd century BC, built the Great Wall and left us the Terracotta Army in his necropolis.
- Ancient Egypt: A beginner's
guide
A selection of the best websites and books to help you discover all aspects of this fascinating society. - Ancient Egyptians
An extract from Anton Gill's book, in which he discusses the Egyptians' religion and the rituals of their priests. - Ancient Surgery
Surgery is not a modern phenomenon but has its roots in the ancient world. Developments in India, Egypt, Greece and Rome many centuries ago meant that operations that are common now were also performed then. - Bodies of Evidence
Investigation of forensic archaeology and the scientific methods of unravelling the mysteries of the past. Plus more than two dozen case studies, including mummies, left-handedness and Lenin's body. - King
Midas' Feast
An exploration of the legend of King Midas (likely to have been the 8th-century BC Phrygian king Mita), plus the ingredients and cooking methods that might have been used in the real king's funeral feast - The Spartans
Edited transcripts that provide a complete history of the rise and fall of one of the most extreme civilisations in history. - Athens: The truth about democracy
Examination of how the democratic Greeks were also slave owners and empire builders. Includes the article 'Who killed Socrates?' - The Celts
Who were the Celts – a people with a distinctive language and culture whom the Romans gradually pushed to the western fringe of Europe, or something more complicated and mysterious? - Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs
Goodall examines five momentous turning points in musical history and asks what they mean for us today (Channel 4 Learning). - The First Emperor
The story of the ruler who unified China in the 3rd century BC, built the Great Wall and left us the Terracotta Army in his necropolis. - Carthage:
A lost empire
In this website, you can follow the chronology of Carthage and the Punic Wars, find out about life in Carthage and discover why it failed, how it has been remembered and what remains. - The
Real Olympics: The guessing games
What do we actually know about ancient Olympic games? - The
Real Spartacus
In the 1st century BC, a slave threatened the power of Rome as his tiny band of gladiators grew into a great revolutionary army. - Herod the Great
Herod, king of the Jews, is said to have ordered the murder of thousands of babies – the ‘slaughter of the innocents’ – just to kill the infant Jesus. But there is much more to him than this infamous role. - Rome: AD 1
An examination of how Rome became an empire, plus biographies of Vespasian and Cleopatra, a look at life in Pompeii, and a discussion of how paganism yielded to Christianity. - The Worst Jobs in History:
Roman/Anglo-Saxon jobs
When the Romans invaded, they created some truly terrible job vacancies. Later, Anglo-Saxon England offered a new range of miserable ways to make a living. - Chariot Race
Great game in which you manoeuvre your Roman chariot round the arena. - Secret
History: Lost legions of Varus
The extraordinary destruction of three Roman legions in AD 9 by German tribes leads to a discussion of guerrilla tactics throughout history. - Children and war
The history of child warriors extends from the youths of ancient Sparta and the youngsters below decks in Nelson’s navy to the young people engaged in military activity in the 21st century. - Time
Team’s Big Roman Dig
Find out what the team found during a week of excavations, plus lots of good info on life in Roman Britain. - My Culture Right or Left
Archaeologist Francis Pryor claims that the British did to its colonies what the Romans did to Britain. - In Boudica's Footsteps
Follow the life of the British queen who rebelled against the Romans. - Pompeii
and Herculaneum
A timetable of the AD 79 eruption, a chronology of the excavations and much more. - Roman History: The
top 10 sites
Our selection of the very best on the internet about Roman history and culture.
