Was the Byzantine Empire a continuation of Ancient Greece, or something entirely new? In this video, we trace the Hellenization of the Eastern Roman Empire—from language shifts and classical education ...

The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ancient Greece, the civilisation responsible for all that we cherish about our cultural, political and ...

The Greek Empire had fallen, conquered by the Romans ... In this video, we will discover how in ancient Greece it was the oracles who provided divine insight and guided citizens towards good ...

Pelion in Greece was the site of the oldest lighthouse in the world, older even than the famed Lighthouse, or "Pharos," of ...

An archaeological dig in eastern France revealed the remnants of a five-foot-high equestrian statue that likely overlooked a city's gates.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great ...

The ancient Greek city of Antioch in Syria, also known as Antioch on the Orontes River, was the third-largest city in the Roman Empire. The only two Roman Empire cities larger than Antioch were ...

By the mid-second century B.C.E., the Roman Empire had taken control of Greece, including Olympia. The Games continued, popular but diminishing in honor and glory. In the early 300s, Rome adopted ...