This section will list all the videos related to Ancient History, including documentaries and lectures. With the growth of video-sharing services like Youtube, everyday new items are being posted to offer insights into ancient civilizations.
Ancient Historic Sites from the World Heritage List
Watch 18 videos of UNESCO World Heritage Sites from the Ancient World, including ones on the Roman Colosseum, Pompeii, Petra and the Great Wall of China.
Life Away from the Nile: Exploring Kharga Oasis in Egypts Western Desert
As part of the Provost’s Lecture series, Salima Ikram, AUC Egyptology professor and leading scholar in Egyptian funerary archaeology, delivered a lecture titled, “Life Away from the Nile: Exploring Kharga Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert,” in Moataz Al Alfi Hall, AUC New Cairo. Ikram provides an overview of archeological remains discovered as part of AUC’s North Kharga Oasis Survey (NKOS).
Risk and Humanities
Was there risk before modernity? This lecture explores how we might tell the ancient history of risk—from oracles (an ancient form of risk assessment) through gambling and agricultural strategies to the parade of Luck and Chance in sculptural form. In Greece and Rome (and other pre modern societies) is it misleading to think in terms of risk? Is it more helpful to ask simply, What did people worry about?—a question to which we find some surprising answers. At the same time, there is another agenda underlying this lecture: an exploration of the risks facing research and teaching in the Humanities. What do academics need to be worried about today and for the future?
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
From the Open University, this video looks at the Roman city of Thugga (also known as Dougga), which is located in northern Tunisia. The video examines the influence that Roman architecture and art had on Africa and its people.
Reconstructing a Greek Penteconter
Lecture given on March 4, 2010 at the University of Texas A&M’s Nautical Archaeology Program
The Double Halyard in Ancient Mediterranean Rigging
Lecture given in 2009 at the University of Texas A&M’s Nautical Archaeology Program
Introduction to Ancient Greek History with Donald Kagan
Learn about Ancient Greeks through this series of 24 lectures from Yale University Professor Donald Kagan
What Is Ancient History?
Ian Morris, the Willard Professor of Classics, Stanford University, is interested in understanding why the west has dominated the earth for the last few centuries.
The Cities Of The Pharaohs
From the show Secrets of Archaeology, this episode looks at the sanctuaries of Karnak and Luxor, and explore the temples, residences, and shops of ancient cities such as Memphis and Thebes.
Ancient Egypt and the Tebtunis Papyri on the Shore of the Ocean of Stories
Examines Egypt during the Graeco-Roman period, focusing on the Tebtunis papyri.
Walking the Royal Road: The Ancient Kingdom of Angkor
Dr. Jennifer Foley of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts lectures on the ancient Southeast Asian kingdom of Angkor and the structures at Angkor Wat.
Why Ancient China Just Never Goes Away
Steve Durrant, Professor of Chinese Literature at University of Oregon, presents: “Why Ancient China Just Never Goes Away.” Deals with the history of China up to the year 9 AD (end of the Western Han Dynasty).
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
About the lives of the elite Romans who owned luxurious estates around Pompeii and the art that these Romans collected.
See also:
Christian Community and Spiritual Authority in Late Antiquity
