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What can we learn from the fall of Rome?.

Sex, scandal and slander: who was Messalina?

Messalina: sex, slander & scandal in imperial Rome.

Goths: everything you wanted to know.

Bronze Boudica statue against summer sky in London

What did Boudica’s Iceni warriors look like?

Boudica’s rebellion: a blood-soaked blow to the Roman empire.

Bust of Heliogabalus

From sex scandals to religious controversy: Rome's forgotten emperor Heliogabalus

The end of Roman BritainWhat really happened?.

Heliogabalus: Rome’s scandalous emperor.

Augustus Caesar, first Roman Emperor.

Everything you wanted to know about the Roman emperors

A painting of Hannibal leading his men into Italy in 218 BC, seated on top a war elephant (Photo by Peter Horree / Alamy Stock Photo)

What if...Hannibal had taken Rome?.

Mavia of Tanukh, illustration by Lynn Hatzius

Mavia Of TanukhWarrior queen of Arabia.

Alexander the Great’s extraordinary childhood.

Perhaps the most charming idea about the origins of the festive tradition of kissing under the mistletoe derives from a Viking myth of Frigg, goddess of love and marriage, and her ill-fated son Balder. (Photo by Jurg Waldmeier/StockFood Creative/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AWhy do we kiss under the mistletoe?

A medieval illustration showing a doctor bleeding a patient

General History

A history of medicine14 surprising facts

Crassus: Rome’s richest man.

Christianity: a success story from the start?.

The Unesco world heritage site of Hadrian's Wall. (Photo by Getty Images)

Black British historyBlack Britannia.

The Unesco world heritage site of Hadrian's Wall. (Photo by Getty Images)

New light on the end of Roman Britain.

The leader of the Luddites, 1812. Found in the collection of British Museum. Anonymous artist. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

5 of the worst years in British history

Episode 8Families, ancestors and DNA.

Roman women: everything you wanted to know.

A third-century monument of a Roman woman having her hair styled by slaves, from Germany. High-status women on the frontiers, including at Hadrian's Wall, tried to follow the latest Roman fashions (Photo by DEA / M. BORCHI / Getty Images)

Roman Britain: what six objects can reveal about life for women at Hadrian’s Wall.

Pompey flees after the battle of Pharsalus

The battle of Pharsalus: how Julius Caesar defeated Pompey

Episode 9Ends and beginnings.

Hannibal: Rome’s greatest nightmare.

The tombstone of a Roman soldier named Vivius Marcianus.

How the Great Fire of London revealed the city’s Roman past.

Episode 7Bones, diet and migrants.

Episode 6Cultures lost and found.

Episode 5An identity crisis?.