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There Was a Roman in Your Garden

Bettany Hughes , Nathan Reed

It’s your LUCKY day! You’ve stumbled across an ancient treasure chest in your garden that was buried THOUSANDS of years ago by a child living in ancient Rome. And the chest is packed with 20 strange and curious items that tell us so much about their life, such as:Armour...

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Bettany Hughes

Venus and Aphrodite

Bettany Hughes

'Lively' THE TIMES'Engrossing' THE SPECTATOR'Stunning' WOMAN & HOME'Marvellous' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINEThrough ancient art, evocative myth, intriguing archaeological discoveries and philosophical explorations, Bettany Hughes takes us on a voyage of discovery to reveal the...

Istanbul

Bettany Hughes

Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople,Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and...

The Hemlock Cup

Bettany Hughes

We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of modern life. For seventy years Socrates was a vigorous citizen of...

Helen Of Troy

Bettany Hughes

As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King...

Istanbul

Bettany Hughes

Un voyage inédit dans 3 000 ans d’Histoire.Depuis la nuit des temps, Istanbul captive les esprits et attire des populations du monde entier. Et c’est parce qu’elle a toujours été aussi convoitée que la ville recèle de tant d’anecdotes et récits incroyables. Istanbul, Le...