Changing Britain: Stone Age to the Saxon Conquest
Certain mysteries of pre-Saxon Britain are decoded by Jacquetta Hawkes
Ancient
Books and Alphabets
Julian Huxley traces the development of writing and language, and expounds on its meaning for humanity.
The Birth of Civilization
Sir Julian Huxley examines the debates and mysteries that surround humanity's earliest moves towards mass society.
Sennacherib’s Experiment: Cotton Reaches the West
G. Goossens recalls the Assyrian monarchs, noted for their ferocity, great libraries, and achievements in agriculture and engineering.
Peru Before Pizarro
C.A. Burland describes the highly developed, sprawling and ancient Incan civilisation in the years preceding its conquest by the Spanish seaborne empire.
Historians Reconsidered: Tacitus
A great historian of an age he disliked, Harold Mattingly shows how Tacitus has given posterity an incomparable picture of the early Roman Empire.
Water Crises in the Ancient World
The need to manage the water supply has always been a driver of human history, argues Steven Mithen.
National Rivalries at the Ancient Olympics
The ancient Greek Olympics were just as enmeshed in international politics, national rivalries and commercial pressures as their modern counterpart.
Virgil and the Libyan crisis
The Aeneid, Virgil’s epic Latin poem, offers as profound an insight into the current Libyan crisis as any 24-hour news channel, argues Robert Zaretsky.
Ancient Worlds: Making classic television
As the TV series Ancient Worlds reaches its conclusion, its writer and presenter Richard Miles looks at the challenges of making a historical documentary.