Harappan civilization: Did you mean...?

In the final part of his Near East lecture, Dr. David Neiman discusses the Assyrian civilization that eventually came to dominate the Near East in the late second millennium BCE. He details the archives found at...

In this third installment of Dr. David Neiman's second lecture on the Cradles of Civilization, Dr. Neiman continues to read from the "Date Formula" or "Year List" of King Hammurabi. This listing was...

In part five of the second lecture in the series "Cradles of Civilization", Dr. Neiman compares the political approach of Hammurabi of Babylon to other great leaders including: Nebuchadnezzer, Cyrus The Great, Alexander...

This is the part one of lecture two in the series "Cradles of Civilization" by Dr. David Neiman. He explains how the cuneiform texts of ancient languages were deciphered by scholars of the nineteenth-century...

In this concluding segment of Dr. David Neiman's "Cradles of Civilization" (lecture two), Dr. Neiman discusses the way the year 'one' was calculated before the advent of the modern calendar.

Animal husbandry is commonly defined as a branch of agriculture dealing with the domestication, breeding, and rearing of animals for various purposes including labor (as in the case of large animals), a food source, protection...

The Bronze Age Collapse (also known as Late Bronze Age Collapse) is a modern-day term referring to the decline and fall of major Mediterranean civilizations during the 13th-12th centuries...

EPISODE 2: GOLDEN AGE The second part recounts the Greeks' heroic victory against the mighty Persian empire through the life of Themistocles, one of Athens' greatest generals.The episode...

This video takes a quick look at the archaeological site of Çatalhöyük (a.k.a. Catal Huyuk), one of the most impressive and complete Neolithic, or "new stone age" villages ever discovered.

In part six of his nine part lecture on the Near East, Dr. Neiman discusses the importance of Sumer's influence on Egypt. Further, he details how the building of the temple towers, named "Ziggurat" lead to the...