With more than seven million visitors a year, its massive structure and awesome architecture testify to the genius of ancient Roman building techniques, earning it a place not only among UNESCO's World Heritage sites but as one of the new seven wonders of the world. The Roman Colosseum is an emblem of the power of a bygone empire.

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

This film is a documentary on the archaeological excavation of the Snaketown Dig just out of Phoenix...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...

Rome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious ...

This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record...

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...

This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declar...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was w...

Ancient pharaoh Akhenaten was almost lost to history. Canadian archaeologist Donald Redford, who unc...

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassi...

Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in Fr...