Videos

A new technique unveils ancient colour at the British Museum.

The excavation and conservation of an Iron Age cauldron. In November 2004 CE, a metal detector user discovered 12 cauldrons dating back to the Iron Age (around 800 BCE - around 43 CE), buried in a pit near the village of Chiseldon in Wiltshire...

The greatest Olympic runner of all was Leonidas of Rhodes who won all three running events at each of the four successive Olympiads between 164 and 152 BCE. Women competed in foot races at Olympia, but these were not part of the Olympic Games...

A brief look into a new book that will bring insight into the world's oldest writing system by authors Irving Finkel and Jonathan Taylor, curators of the world's largest collection of cuneiform tablets at the British Museum. British Museum...

Winners in the ancient Olympics were allowed to set up statues of themselves at Olympia. If they won three times they could set up specially commissioned portrait statues which could cost up to ten times the average yearly wage. British...

For three years, a research team from the British Museum, the University of Reading, Royal Holloway University of London and the Universidad Nacional de San Cristobal de Huamanga set out to discover how the Inca Empire used a stone platform...

Mummies: Images of the Afterlife will begin touring in September, 2015. Stay tuned to see them visiting a museum near you! http://bit.ly/1zPgGs0 Major thanks to JP Brown and the staff of the Regenstein Pacific Lab for allowing us to document...

Using a combination of Total War: ATTILA in game footage and live action footage of professional stunt riders*, historian Dr Paul Harrison talks us through the ruthless and dramatic life of the infamous ‘Scourge of God’ – Attila the Hun...

Dael retells the tale of the blind seer Tiresias, and just how he managed to become a blind seer in the first place. Featuring lots of heteronormativity, a reliance on a gender dichotomy that doesn’t really exist, and a multitude of giggly...

In which John presents Mesopotamia, and the early civilizations that arose around the Fertile Crescent. Topics covered include the birth of territorial kingdoms, empires, Neo-Assyrian torture tactics, sacred marriages, ancient labor practices...