TED Talks
Bran Ferren: To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering
When Bran Ferren was just 9, his parents took him to see the Pantheon in Rome — and it changed everything. In that moment, he began to understand how the tools of science and engineering become more powerful when combined with art, with...
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Antalya’s must-visit locations: From historic sites to mountainous hiking trails
In this episode of TravelSmart, Simon Calder dives into the Turkish region of Antalya. With picturesque valleys, cascading waterfalls, lakes and canyons, many natural attractions can be found on an astonishing scale in the Taurus...
Curated Video
Landmarks - Hadrian's Wall
HADRIAN S WALL HADRIAN'S WALL IS ONE OF ENGLAND'S MOST STUNNING AND MEMORABLE MONUMENTS. IT WAS BUILT IN AD 122 TO SEPARATE THE ROMANS FROM THE BARBARIANS. THE WORLD HERITAGE SITE TAKES IN SOME OF THE MOST RUGGED MOORLAND AND RUNS...
Vlogbrothers
How Young Is History?
In which John Green considers the historical distance between Rome's Pantheon, the cave paintings at Lascaux, a different community's cave paintings at Chauvet, and the current day. Too often, we think that a hundred years, or a...
Curated Video
Turkey, Ancient City Aphrodisias
Aphrodisias was the metropolis of the region and Roman province of Caria. White and blue grey Carian marble was extensively quarried from adjacent slopes in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, for building facades and sculptures. Marble...
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Italy, Rome, Roman Forum - Temple of Venus and Rome
The largest and most splendid of Rome's temples, the Temple of Venus and Rome was designed by Hadrian, himself. Although consecrated in AD 121, construction did not begin until about AD 125. The architect was the emperor Hadrian and...
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Turkey, Ancient City Pergamon
Pergamon was an ancient city located in the Anatolia region, approximately 25 kilometres from the Aegean Sea in present-day Bergama, Izmir Province of Turkey. Xenophon provides the earliest surviving documentary mention of Pergamon....
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Italy, Tivoli - Hadrian's Villa, the Canopus
One of the most striking and best preserved parts of the Villa consists of a pool named Canopus and an artificial grotto named Serapeum. An Egyptian city named Canopus was where a temple named Serapeum was dedicated to the god Serapis....
History Hit
Hadrians Wall: Sending letters and combating disease
How did the Romans proactively combat the spread of disease? How advanced were the Romans living on the frontier? Hadrians Wall, Part 4
History Hit
Hadrians Wall: The end of the wall
What was the other purpose of the wall? In the end, what happened to it? Hadrians Wall, Part 5
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Hadrian Emperor
Hadrian (76-138 AD) was the fourteenth Emperor of Rome. Hadrian was born Publius Aelius Hadrianus into a Hispano-Roman family. Although Italica near Santiponce (in modern-day Spain) is often considered his birthplace, his actual place of...
Jabzy
Hadrians Wall - Stuff That I Find Interesting
In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about Hadrian's Wall
History Hit
Hadrians Wall: Modern day comforts
What was life like in the fort? What was the process like to take a bath? Hadrians Wall, Part 3
Curated Video
Emperor Hadrian: Face & History Revealed, Along with Lover Antinous
Hadrian is considered to be one of Rome's "Five Good Emperors." But he was a man of many shades of grey. After a shaky beginning to his rule, Hadrian embarked on some truly amazing building projects, and stopped the aggressive...
Weird History
What Was Hygiene Like For Roman Emperors
The norms and conventions of the ancient Roman world largely dictated the hygiene practices of its emperors - as did their personal vanity, practicality, and access to luxury. Physical representations of these men on coins and in busts...
History Hit
Hadrians Wall: The walls characteristics
What were the characteristics of the wall? What else was created along the wall? How was the wall patrolled? Hadrians Wall, Part 2
Curated Video
Turkey, Aphrodisias - Hadrian's Baths
Hadrian, the Roman Emperor, came to Aphrodisias in one of his travels in Anatolia. The city council had erected these baths the memory of this visit. Baths consists of two large sections of men and women, who washed separately. There is...
History Hit
Hadrians Wall: The birth of the wall
What was the cause of the wall to be built? Why is the wall special to the Scottish? Hadrians Wall, Part 1
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Marcus Aurelius Brought to Life with Motion & Color, History Included
Marcus Aurelius: the famous Stoic Emperor. His road to emperorship was long and winding. His time as emperor was even harder. Plagued by disease and wars, Aurelius still managed to maintain his philosophical point of view. Ideas from his...
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Italy, Tivoli - Hadrian's Villa
The villa was constructed at Tibur (modern-day Tivoli) as a retreat from Rome for Roman Emperor Hadrian during the second and third decades of the 2nd century AD. Hadrian is said to have disliked the palace on the Palatine Hill in Rome,...
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Ground-breaking new opera looks to rattle audiences
A ground-breaking new opera, Hadrian, from Canadian Rufus Wainwright, depicts a gay love story, something that is rarely seen in opera, and never so explicitly.
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2 men guilty of cutting down world-famous tree at Hadrian's Wall | Hanomansing Tonight
Two men have been found guilty of felling the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall in the U.K. The tree, which was about 200 years old, was chopped down in September 2023.
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Jordan, Ancient Roman city Jerash(Gerasa)
Ancient Jerash is a Greco-Roman city, north of the capital Amman. Inhabited since the Bronze Age, after the Roman conquest in 63 BC, Jerash and the land surrounding it were annexed to the Roman province of Syria, and later joined the...
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Jordan, Ancient city Gadara (Umm Qais)
Umm Qais or Qays is a town in northern Jordan principally known for its proximity to the ruins of the ancient Gadara, also a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular