Ancient

The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce....

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Heroes, written and read by Stephen Fry. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes....

An intellectual detective story, this history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain....

Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves....

Learn how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today....

From Graham Hancock, best-selling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans....

In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'....

Stephen Dando-Collins paints a vivid and definitive portrait of daily life in the Tenth Legion....

The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire - a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again....

The story of the tumultuous years that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic....

The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. Esteemed scholar, author, and media contributor Tony Spawforth follows the thread of civilization through more than six millennia of history....

A riveting journey to the truth about the most remarkable event in history: the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the proof behind it. From the award-winning, best-selling work The Case for Christ, by Lee Strobel, this audiobook is perfect for Easter or any time of the year....

Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

Empire of Ancient Greece is an informative introduction to this cornerstone of Western civilization....

The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history....

A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own....

When we look at the incredible feats of engineering that our ancestors were able to achieve, it leaves us in awe....

Explore the mystery of Atlantis and discover the enigma that has captivated the world since the time of Plato....

Embark on an unforgettable trip into the historical glories of the past with these 24 lectures that immerse you in the history of an often overlooked region of the ancient world.

Throughout the lectures, you'll study Judaism as it was understood by its adherents in the past and by those who practice or identify with Judaism today....

Learn what the scrolls are, what they contain, and how the insights they offered into religious and ancient history came into focus....

Go beyond the myth and learn about the man who changed the face of the ancient world and laid the foundation for the great traditions of the Roman Empire....

Sixty-six million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth....

Discover an alternate history to the human race as the authors of Forbidden Archeology....

These 12 fast-paced lectures cover many civilizations that may only receive a few lines of cursory discussion in the average Western civilization textbook....

Clearly, the Greeks are a source of much that we esteem in our own culture.....

In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority, and style....