Exploring life in Pompeii during the final days of the doomed city.

National Geographic’s landmark event series, The Greeks, brings together historians, archaeologists, actors, athletes, scientists and ...

Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world – Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche ...

Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy – Buddha, Socrates and Confucius.

The rise and fall of one of the most extreme civilisations the world has ever witnessed – one founded on discipline, sacrifice and frugality, ...