Videos

Dr. Matthew Nicholls from the University of Reading sat down with James Lloyd, AHE's Video Editor, to discuss his Virtual Rome project. This project recreates the city of Rome c.317 CE, including...

A pioneering philosopher and one of the most pivotal in a line of great men who informed our understanding of the world; here are 5 facts about Aristotle. For more historical facts and features, visit http://www.historyanswers.co.uk/...

Who were those figures who stood around Stonehenge in bedsheets? Lets find out by debunking 5 myths about the enigmatic Druids. For more historical facts and features, visit http://www.historyanswers.co.uk/ Or...

Highway guards, King assassinations and cat soldiers? Heres 5 things you didn’t know about the Persian Empire. For more historical facts and features, visit http://www.historyanswers.co.uk/ Or purchase the...

A short video describing Heinrich Schliemann's discovery of the so-called "Death Mask of Agamemnon".

Listen to an audio commentary about a painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. The Calydonian Boar Hunt, Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, about 1611 - 1612, oil on panel http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=267599...

Listen to an audio commentary about a painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. Venus and Adonis, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Italian, about 1555 — 1560, oil on canvas http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=1030...

In 1999 Antiquities conservators from the Getty Museum began a collaborative project with the Pergamon Museum in Berlin to conserve a statue of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The two-thousand year...

Using ultraviolet and raking light, archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann examines marble sculptures of Athena and Paris from the Temple of Aphaia, now in the Glyptothek in Munich. In the process, he reveals examples...

Mold-blown glass is made by blowing hot glass into a mold made of clay, wood, or metal. The glass is forced against the inner surfaces of the mold and assumes its shape, together with any decoration that...