Part One: Sumer and Egypt -- Part Two: Ancient Greece -- Part Three: Ancient Rome -- Part Four: Imperial China -- Part Five: Ancient India -- Part Six: Ancient Hebrews -- Part Seven: Early Middle Ages ...

This animated documentary explores the concept of racism in Ancient Greece by examining primary sources and historical context. It distinguishes ancient ethnic prejudices from modern racism, analyzes ...

To a historian of ancient Rome like Mary Beard, it’s always timely to talk about the empire. But her new book about the daily lives of Roman Emperors, Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World, ...

New research is uncovering a richer, more complex picture of women's roles as wives, priestesses, and scholars in ancient Greece. A woman places her robe in a chest in a fifth century B.C. Greek ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according to a ...