Past to Present is a series of five videos that explore ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and China, created through a collaboration between ABC Education and the NSW Department of Education. The concept of ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. Streaming services offer a variety of ancient history documentaries to fulfill the ...

Tsakonika, the language of ancient Sparta, still survives today, despite the ravages of time and the many reversals of ...

The sudden appearance of the Huns on the northern frontier of the Roman Empire in the late fourth century sent shockwaves ...

The three ages of the ancient world — Stone, Bronze, and Iron — encompass the formative years of human history in most regions. Learn how we went from dwelling in caves to building civilizations over ...

New research reveals how ancient Greeks picked their names, showing social pressure played a major role in naming traditions.

Colors mean different things to different people across time and space, but the color red has remained an integral way of representing hate, love and luxury for millennia. In a new book on the history ...

Although we often romanticize the bare marble of ancient sculpture today, most of these specimens were in fact painted in bright shades of blue, red, yellow, brown and many other hues. Over the past ...

You wouldn't want to cross paths with these ancient rulers, who were known for invasion and torture. Here are five of the worst tyrants in history. History is full of brutal, cruel and power-hungry ...

After hunter-gatherers became farmers and farming gave rise to cities, cities gave rise to empires. They grew through military conquest, were built by slaves and were maintained with brutal violence, ...