Archaeology

A Neanderthal skull and some of the tools used by the Neanderthals. (Photo by Getty Images)

General prehistory

A brief history guide to Neanderthals, plus 7 fascinating facts

Zainab Bahrani on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

General ancient history

Ancient Babylon: everything you wanted to know

Chris Naunton at BBC History Weekend

Looking for Egypt’s lost tombs

'The last Day of Pompeii', 1833. Briullov, Karl Pavlovich (1799-1852). Found in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Pompeii: a remarkable window into ancient Roman life

Howard Williams talks about the ethics of excavation on the HistoryExtra podcast.

Viking warrior women & the ethics of excavating the dead

Photo of an Anglo Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo

Sutton Hoo: a brief guide to the Anglo-Saxon burial site and its discovery

Camilla Townsend on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

Aztecs in their own words

Podcast Gabor Thomas Web large

An Anglo-Saxon warlord

Neil Oliver. Television presenter and author Neil Oliver at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 2019 (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)

General ancient history

Ancient wisdom with Neil Oliver

Head and shoulders of a sculpted model of a female Neanderthal

General prehistory

The Neanderthals: everything you wanted to know

The Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London: how the ferocious blaze of 1666 destroyed the capital

Pectoral ornament in the form of a double headed serpent, Aztec/ Mixtec, c 1400/1521 (Photo by Getty Images)

The Aztecs: everything you wanted to know

Colourised print of the Lighthouse of Alexandria as imagined in the 18th century

General ancient history

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: what were they, and what happened to them?

A 16th-century painting of the Tower of Babel

General ancient history

Your guide to... the ancient city of Babylon

Stonehenge: Not a henge, but certainly a stone circle, and a very long-lived centre of human activity. (Getty Images)

General ancient history

Stonehenge mystery solved: where do the large stones come from?