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.

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

Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of bl...

The greatest amphitheatre ever built by the Romans and a monument to blood and brutality. But what w...

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

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

A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betray...

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

From the legendary times of Romulus and Remus to the present day, the compelling story of the eterna...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own ga...

Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. ...

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

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