Subscribe
Columnists
Newsletters
Historical TV and Film
Today in history
Download our app
The official website for BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed
Search
Period
Back to
Main menu
Ancient Egypt
Roman
Viking
Anglo-Saxon
Medieval
Tudor
Elizabethan
Georgian
Victorian
Second World War
View all Periods
People
Back to
Main menu
Tutankhamun
Richard III
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Queen Victoria
Winston Churchill
Cleopatra
Napoleon-Bonaparte
View all People
Topics
Back to
Main menu
Kings and queens
Weird and wonderful
Sex and love
Social history
Religious history
Women's history
Historical Q&As
Heritage visits
History hero
Historical recipes
Turning points in British history
View all Topics
Podcast
Back to
Main menu
All podcasts
Episodes by topic
Podcast club
Podcast series
Back to
Podcast
Life of the week
Cundill History Prize 2023
The First Crusade
Great Reputations
US Civil Rights: fighting for freedom
History's greatest cities
Long reads
Caesar: Death of a Dictator
Six Wives
Historical conspiracies
Cuban Missile Crisis
Everything you wanted to know about...
The Mary Rose
Tutankhamun
15 minutes of fame
The black death
Salem witch trials
Video
Back to
Main menu
All video
Video podcasts
Bitesize history videos
Video series
Back to
Video
The Holocaust with Laurence Rees
Tudor Royal Women
Femina: Women of the Middle Ages with Janina Ramirez
Medieval Masterclass with Dan Jones
Monarchy masterclass with Tracy Borman
Quizzes
Magazines
Back to
Main menu
BBC History Magazine
BBC History Revealed
BBC World Histories Magazine
Subscriber downloads
Special editions
About us
Subscribe
Subscribe
Subscribe
Columnists
Newsletters
Historical TV and Film
Today in history
Download our app
Home
Period
General ancient history
General ancient history
Premium
Membership
History hero
Nihal Arthanayake chooses Ashoka the Great (c304–c232 BC)
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
General ancient history
From Nan Madol to Karakorum: 7 cities that history forgot
General ancient history
Q&A
What was Greek fire?
Advertisement MPU index
General ancient history
Have empires ever been a force for good?
Premium
Membership
Lecture
Niall Ferguson on the politics of catastrophe
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
The Maya: everything you wanted to know
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
Bog bodies: what can they teach us?
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
Assassinations: from the ancient world to JFK
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
Voices of China
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Advertisement MPU index
Premium
Membership
What if…
Julius Caesar had not been assassinated?
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
General ancient history
Pride and prejudice: same-sex relations through history
General Modern
From the ancient world to the 1969 Stonewall Riots: a brief guide to LGBT+ history
Premium
Membership
Daily life in ancient Egypt: everything you wanted to know
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
Werewolves of the ancient world
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
The Persian empire: everything you wanted to know
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Prev
Page
1
Page
3
You're currently on page
4
Page
5
Page
13
Next