Ancient

Exploration of a new museum opening in Lausanne on the Roman settlement in the area

Were the 'barbarians' who shored up Rome's armies and frontiers the empire's salvation or doom?

Keith Nurse investigates new archaeological findings linking wine producing to Roman England.

Keith Hopkins takes us on a tour de force via original texts of the hopes, dreams, assumptions and frustrations of the Roman schoolboy.

Mary Beard looks at the new ways of thinking about what life was like for women in Greece and Rome.

Robert Garland draws on both mythology and accounts of everyday life to probe attitudes to physical misfortune in the classical era.

Bovver boys in Athens and Rome? Apparently so, according to Robert Garland, who uncovers tales from life and legend to show how high jinks could turn to blows in the classical world.

Charlemagne may have been the first Holy Roman Emperor but what did he do to dispel the 'Dark Ages'? Mary Alberi looks at the work of his leading court intellectual, Alcuin, and how his hopes for a 'New Athens' in the Aachen palace school promoted the Carolingian Renaissance.

Running after foreign gods - Richard Stoneman explains how Rome's Syrian rival, the city of Palmyra, and her formidable queen Zenobia influenced the religion and mores of the later Empire - and brought us in the process Christmas Day.

Frank L. Holt looks at the legends and realities of Alexander's bride from Central Asia, the world she lived in and the power struggles that ensnared her.