Romans Archives

Digging for Britain episode 1 2023

History / 5 minutes of reading / May 15, 2023 / By HDclump

Digging for Britain episode 1 2023: In this exciting new series, renowned archaeologist Professor Alice Roberts embarks on a journey to explore even more archaeological sites scattered throughout the nation. With recent excavations in southern England shedding light on a previously undiscovered Roman town, a hidden Tudor ship submerged beneath a quarry, and evidence pointing to Henry VIII’s financial forgery located beneath the historic Tower of London, there is an abundance of new knowledge to be uncovered. One might assume that we already have a comprehensive understanding of the Roman occupation of Britain. However, the beauty of archaeology […]

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Sicily: The Wonder of the Mediterranean

History / 2 minutes of reading / February 19, 2018 / By HDclump

Historian Michael Scott journeys through Sicily to find out how 3,000 years of conquest and settlement have shaped the identity of the island we see today. Sicily: The Wonder of the Mediterranean Part 1 : Historian Michael Scott begins his journey through Sicily on the slopes of Mount Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano. For the ancient Greeks, the island was a land of gods and monsters – a dangerous and unpredictable world. Michael discovers how 3,000 years ago, the Greeks began to settle on the island’s east coast – planting their olives and vines and building great

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Ancient Worlds – City of Man City of God ep.6

History / 9 minutes of reading / December 15, 2017 / By HDclump

At the height of its power, the Roman Empire extended the benefits of its civilization to a 60 million citizens and subjects in a swathe of territory that extended from Hadrian’s Wall to the banks of the Euphrates.

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East to West – The Renaissance and islam ep.4

History / 3 minutes of reading / November 28, 2017 / By HDclump

In this episode we reveal how a golden age of invention and scholarship thrived in the Islamic World at a time when Europe lingered in the dark age. We see how Muslim scholars brought together for the first time the ideas of the Greeks and Romans with Persian and Indian mathematics and astronomy, and developed them into the beginnings of modern Science. We reveal the first contacts by which European scholars discovered this treasury of knowledge and how it was developed by generations of Arab-admirers (including Galileo & Copernicus) into modern science. This episode focuses on the House

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