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Ancient Rome on Film, Part 2: The Empire Strikes Back, from Gladiator to Spartacus Blood and Sand

For nearly 3 decades after the epic disasters of the 60's lost out at the box office it seemed that the sword and sandal genre would be dead forever until decades later when a new set of films broke new ground and helped revive the Roman Empire...

Ancient Rome on Film, Part 1: From Spartacus to the Fall of the Empire

From the Silent Era to Spartacus - this first in a two part series on the Ancient World of Cinema, that traces the Roman Empire's rise during the silver screen when movies like Ben Hur ruled, to theeventual Fall of Empire on film, when the sword and sandal genre finally drove audiances away from the big screen...

Language and Identity in the Roman Empire

The most detailed records we have of ancient Europeans come to us from early Greek historians who describe to us the various tribes and peoples that lived at the periphery of their known world. The Romans later shaped these defintions into the provinces that shaped there Empires, influencing the language areas that make up European society to this day.

The Ancient Wall as a Cultural Barrier

The Great Wall of China is the most monumental barrier ever created in the ancient world and certainly the msot famous, but did you know about the walls that helped define the nation of Denmark, or walls that effectively preserved the celtic identity of the people that would become the nation of Scotland?

Largest Anglo-Saxon treasure since Sutton Hoo, has been discovered buried in Staffordshire, England

Historians are saying this could alter our perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England as radically, if not more so, then the famous Sutton Hoo ship burial discoveries of the last century