分类目录归档：ancient
As an archaeologist,
I'm most often asked what my favorite discovery is.
The answer's easy:
my husband, Greg.
(Laughter)
We met in Egypt on my first dig.
It was my first lesson in finding unexpected,
I was born and raised in Dakar, Senegal,
and through a combination of accidents and cosmic justice,
became a chef in the US.
(Laughter)
When I first arrived in New York,
I began working in these resta
The Earth is 4.6 billion years old,
but a human lifetime often lasts for less than 100 years.
So why care about the history of our planet
when the distant past seems so inconsequential to everyday lif
Translator: tom carter Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar
It's March the 17th in A.D. 73.
We're visiting ancient Rome to watch the Liberalia,
an annual festival that celebrates the liberty of Rome's citizens.
W
Translator: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Jessica Ruby
Today, we're going to look at the world of Rome
through the eyes of a young girl.
Here she is, drawing a picture of herself
in the atrium of her fat
I'd like to start with a short story
it's about a little boy whose father was
a history buff and who used to take him
by the hand to visit the ruins of a
ancient metropolis on the outskirts of
their t
Thousands of years in the making,
what began as part of a religious festival honoring the Greek god Zeus
in the rural Greek town of Olympia
has today become the greatest show of sporting excellence on
In ancient Greece, violent internal conflict between bordering neighbors
and war with foreign invaders was a way of life,
and Greeks were considered premier warriors.
Most Greek city-states surrounded
Ani stands before a large golden scale
where the jackal-headed god Anubis is weighing his heart
against a pure ostrich feather.
Ani was a real person,
a scribe from the Egyptian city of Thebes
who liv
It’s 427 BCE and the worst internal conflict ever to occur
in the ancient Greek world is in its fourth year.
The Peloponnesian War is being fought
between the city-states of Athens and Sparta, as we