This video provides a brief overview of the history of Judaism, the world's oldest monotheistic religion. It discusses the covenant between God and Abraham, the Jewish Bible, the influence of Canaanite polytheism, the Babylonian exile...

What was silks place in the Buddhist realm? How did the Buddhist use of silk create competition with others?<br/>
The Silk Roads: Changing Perspectives, Part 4

This short video describes the Roman Empire and the countries it spanned such as Germany or Germania, France or Gallia and Britain which used to be known as Albion.

Records of the first Olympic Games date back to Olympia, Greece in 776 B.C. — where a cook won the only event: a 192-meter race. The Roman Empire then conquered Greece in mid-2nd century B.C., and while the games continued every four...

Picture a citizen of the Roman Empire. What are they wearing? Most likely, you imagined someone wearing a white toga, sandals, and maybe some kind of laurel on their head. But most ancient Romans didn't really dress that way in their...

What finds were found at these excavation sites? What was unique about the cemeteries found in one excavation site?<br/>
The Silk Roads: Trade and Movement, Part 3

On schedule to launch no later than May 2027, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission will help uncover some of the biggest mysteries in the cosmos. The state-of-the-art telescope on the Roman spacecraft...

Ancient Greece Watch the History of Ancient Greece in 5 Minutes...

The Death of Julius Caesar...What does the saying "Beware the Ides of March!" mean? It refers to the day - March 15, 44 BCE - on which Gaius Julius Caesar, a one-time dictator of ancient Rome, was murdered. His grisly assassination was...

The first Temple of Hera, built around 550 BC by the Greek colonists, is the oldest surviving temple in Paestum. Eighteenth-century archaeologists named it "The Basilica" because some mistakenly believed it to be a Roman building. (The...

This short video describes the food eaten in Rome, much of it similar to our own food like eggs, cheese, cold meat and bread but a few surprises like honeyed dormouse.  

The ancient city of Jerusalem is protected by three defensive walls. A few days before Passover, Titus begins his assault on the Third Wall. The Romans breach it within two weeks, and the Second Wall falls one week later. Titus orders...

This clip looks at the physical features, climate, history and culture of Greece.

A description of the story written by Titus Livius about the origins of Rome; the story tells of twin boys and how they grew up they fell out which ended with Romulus killing his brother Remus

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about the Mithridatic Wars

A gorey portrayal of the surgery performed on Prince Henry, after being shot by an arrow in the face during the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. The film illustrates links between surgery in Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages and includes...