The third major series in the "Civilisation" strand looks at huge change in Rome, Egypt, Japan and the lost world of the ...

This is the BBC at its most fundamentally BBC-ish — it is another instalment in its ongoing revival of the 1969 Kenneth Clark ...

It is 113 BC Rome is a Republic, a small empire that clings to the rim of the Mediterranean. Though a democracy in name and spirit, a man must be rich and from the noble class to hold the highest ...

The moments when four ancient worlds faced disaster are brought to life in an epic new series exploring Rome, Egypt, the ...

“Civilisations: Rise and Fall is the next iteration, building on this important legacy, and bringing a fresh eye to this ...

Rise and Fall (BBC Two) is that it has nothing to do with Sir Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series Civilisation, despite the BBC ...

It took Edward Gibbon 12 years from conception to publication to produce the first volume of The History of the Decline And ...

Geneticists have shed new light on the effects of the Roman Empire on Southeast Europe. New DNA analysis has shown how the rise and fall of the empire influenced populations in the Balkans—a region of ...

A year-by-year economic history of the Roman Empire might seem as impossible to reconstruct as the lost 107 books of Livy’s history of Rome. Yet something close to such a record has now been retrieved ...

Have you ever wondered what it felt like to walk through the bustling markets of ancient Rome or stand beneath the towering ...