19:48
Real Samurai Explains Rules for Peace and War // 17th cent. Scrolls of Natori-Ryu // Primary Source
Voices of the Past
22:09
Aztec Perspective on First Contact with Europeans // 16th cent. Florentine Codex // Primary Source
24:10
Nostradamus' First 100 Predictions // 16th Century Primary Source
16:47
First European Description of Life in Korea // 1668 'Hamel's Journal' // Primary Source
11:46
Ancient Chinese Monk Describes Ancient India // 4th century Faxian // Primary Source
7:13
Three Historical Accounts of the Dog-Headed Men // Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta and Sir John Mandeville
12:11
First European Description of Life in Japan // 1585 'Striking Contrasts' Luis Frois - Primary Source
11:27
Roman Trade Route to Ancient China // 1st cent. AD Periplus // Ancient Primary Source
16:57
Earliest Foreign Account of China? // 9th cent. "Accounts of China and India" // Primary Source
12:17
Japanese Historian Describes First Contact With Europeans // 16th cent. "Teppo-ki" // Primary Source
6:10
Diary Of A Pyramid Labourer // Oldest Papyrus Discovered 2550 BC "Diary of Merer" // Primary Source
15:20
Roman Scholar Describes Ancient Africa // Pliny on Source of The Nile and Aethiopia - 1st century AD
5:53
Rameses III Describes Invasion Of Sea Peoples // Mystery of Bronze Age Collapse // Primary Source
10:34
Caesar on the Gauls // Roman Primary Source (58 - 49 BC)
10:10
Ancient Chinese Historian Describes The Xiongnu // Before The Mongols // Book of Han (111 AD)
8:14
Ancient Chinese Historian Describes Japan // First Full Description of Japan // "Wei-Zhi" (297 AD)
5:38
Letter from Genghis Khan Asking for the Secret of Eternal Life // (1219) Invitation to Taoist Monk
3:43
Roman Citizen Describes Ancient Ireland and Thule // Edge of Known World // 7 BC Strabo Geographica
10:55
The End of the World // Ragnarok as told by Snorri Sturluson // 13th century Norse Source
6:55
Ivar and Björn Avenge Ragnar's Death // 12th Century Extracts from Saxo Grammaticus and Krákumál
5:34
Roman Historian Describes Ancient Scandinavia // Before The Vikings // Tacitus 97 AD
27:05
The Tale of Ragnar Lothbrok // Icelandic Saga // 13th Century
17:49
Eye-Witness Account of The Viking Rus' // Ibn Fadlan 921 AD // Primary Source
19:05
Christopher Columbus' First Letter After Discovery of America // 1493 Primary Source
10:05
Roman Historian on The Founding of Rome // Livy on Romulus and Remus // 1st century BC Roman Source
4:14
17th Century Ninja Explains How To Be A Ninja // The Bansenshūkai // Japanese Primary Source
23:41
Plato Describes Atlantis // First Mention of the Island // 360 BC 'Critias'
7:51
Chinese Historian Describes the Byzantine Empire // 7-10th century "Book of Tang" // Primary Source
5:31
Justinian: The Headless Emperor // Procopius' Secret History // 6th century AD Primary Source
6:35
Words of Hanno The Navigator - Ancient Explorer // 5th century BC // Primary Source
4:53
Roman Scholar Describes Ancient China // 1st century AD // Pliny the Elder on the "Seres"
7:32
Captain Cook lands in New Zealand // 1769 Journal Entry // Primary Source
12:29
Ancient Chinese Historian Describes The Roman Empire // 3rd century AD "Weilüe" // Primary Source
10:21
Do the Dog-Headed Men Have Souls? // Letter from 9th Century Monk // Primary Source
6:16
The Fall of Jericho // Old Testament Extract
7:21
Spartan Training // Xenophon 380 BC // Ancient Primary Source
6:11
The Battles of King Arthur // Nennius (C. 830)
7:56
The Death of Caesar (March 15th 44 BC) // Nicolaus of Damascus // Ancient Source
6:24
Dead Sea Scrolls - The War Scroll (Abridged)
3:29
The Behistun Inscription // Darius The Great (550 - 486 BC) // Persian Primary Source
Herodotus on The Pyramids // The Histories 440 BC // Ancient Greek Primary Source
The Orkhon Inscriptions // Göktürk Primary Source // Bilgä Qaghan (683 - 734)
7:22
Joan of Arc's Sentence // May 1431 // Primary Source
10:01
First-Hand Account of the Destruction of Pompeii // Pliny The Younger, Primary Source
8:19
Cortés Meets Montezuma // Cortés' letters // 8th November 1519
Dinner with Atilla the Hun // Priscus 448 CE // Primary Source #projectpannonia
4:01
Assyrian God-King Speaks of his Conquests // Ancient Primary Source // 640 BC Sennacherib
6:15
Caesar on the Druids // Roman Primary Source (58-49 BC)
4:20
A Letter from Iwo Jima // Major Charles Williamson // World War II Primary Source
4:46
Charlemagne's Saxon Wars // Einhard's Life of Charles the Great
10:57
Findan & The Vikings // The Life of St. Findan
11:18
Liutprand of Cremona meets Nikephoros II Phokas // 968 // Byzantine History
2:53
Trial Notes of a Slave from Judah // 549 BC // Ancient Babylonian Tablet
5:10
Leif Erikson discovers America // 999 AD // The Saga of Erik the Red
8:46
Herodotus on the Edge of the World // 440 BC // Ancient Greek Primary Source
4:30
Baghdad under the Abbasids // Yaqut 1000 AD // Arabic Primary Source
3:05
The Tsunami of 365 // Ammianus Marcellinus // Roman Primary Source
9:20
The Story of Spartacus (73 - 71 BC) // As told by Appian // Roman Source
6:42
Adam of Bremen on Jutland // German Primary Source (1076)
29:16
The Magna Carta (1215)
4:15
Letter from Güyük Khan to Pope Innocent IV // 1246 Mongol Primary Source
William the Conqueror's Speech at Hastings (1066) // Be Ye The Avengers of Noble Blood
2:40
Caesar & the Pirates // Plutarch 75 AD // Roman Source
16:31
The Battle of Adrianople (378) Roman Primary Source
6:05
Massacre at Ayyadieh (1191) // Richard Lionheart and Saladin // As told by Baha-ad-din
5:46
The Death of Nero // Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars 121 AD // Roman Primary Source
2:31
Earliest Roman reference to Jesus & Christianity (116 AD) // Tacitus' Annals // Roman Primary Source
5:24
Contemporary Leaflet About The Glencoe Massacre (1692) // Real Red Wedding (GOT) // Primary Source
14:00
Conversation between Hannibal and Scipio before The Battle of Zama (202 BC) // As told by Livy
2:32
Xenophon & The Ruins of Assyria // Ancient Greek Primary Source
11:30
The Justinian Plague: First Pandemic? // Procopius (541-542) // Byzantine Primary Source
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8:30
Calgacus' Speech of Freedom // The Agricola by Tacitus (98AD) // Roman Primary Source
The Settlement of Iceland // Book of the Icelanders (1122-1133) // Primary Source
8:51
King Cnut's Second Letter to the English People (1027) // Anglo-Saxon Primary Source
4:32
Olaf Tryggvason Builds The Long Serpent // Extract From an Old Norse Saga
5:56
Charlemagne's Wars- Aquitaine & Lombardy // Einhard's Life of Charles the Great
4:38
Caesar on the Germans // Roman Primary Source (58-49 BC)
7:09
King Cnut's Letter to the English People // Anglo-Saxon Primary Source (1019)
11:37
The Martyrdom of King Edmund // Anglo-Saxon Primary Source (990-1020)
3:53
Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (872-877) / Primary Source
Alexander the Great's Letter to Darius, King of Persia // Ancient Greek Primary Source
4:34
Caesar on Britain // Roman Primary Source (58-49 BC)
19:11
Sermon of the Wolf to the English (1010-1016) // Anglo-Saxon Primary Source
6:30
The Martyrdom of Blathmac (825) // Frankish Primary Source
11:35
Ibn Hayyān - The Viking Attack on Seville (844) Arabic Primary Source
9:10
Annals of St. Bertin (854-860) // Frankish Primary Source
Harald Fairhair Ravages the Western Isles // Extract from an Old Norse Saga - Heimskringla
2:41
Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (878) / Primary Source
3:32
Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (871) / Primary Source
3:01
Ibn Rusta on the Volga Bulgars (903-913 AD) / Primary Source
2:35
Ibn Rusta on the Burtas (903-913 AD) / Primary Source
Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (1066) / Primary Source
5:35
Wulfstan's Journey to Estonia // Anglo-Saxon Primary Source (890)
Charlemagne's Letter to Offa // Frankish Primary Source (796)
Ibn Rusta on the Slavs (903-913 AD) / Primary Source
9:02
Ohthere of Hålogaland's Voyage to the White Sea // Anglo-Saxon Primary Source (890)
Ibn Rusta on the Rus' (903-913 AD) / Primary Source
2:34
Ibn Rusta on the Magyars (903-913 AD) / Primary Source
3:31
Ibn Rusta on the Khazars (903-913 AD) / Primary Source
7:54
Procopius' Wars of Justinian (Pt. 3)
6:01
The Travels of Marco Polo (Pt. 4)
8:58
William of Tyre - A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea (Pt. 1)
Procopius' Wars of Justinian (Pt. 2)
4:45
The Travels of Marco Polo (Pt. 3)
Caesar's Gallic Wars (Pt. 3)
4:58
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Pt. 3.)
6:33
Procopius' Wars of Justinian (Pt. 1)
4:35
The Travels of Marco Polo (Pt. 2)
4:33
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Pt. 4)
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Pt. 2)
4:03
Caesar's Gallic Wars (Pt. 2)
7:26
The Histories of Herodotus (Pt. 1)
4:57
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Pt. 1)
7:27
The World Of Space // H.G Wells' Short History of the World (Pt. 1)
6:28
Caesar's Gallic Wars (Pt. 1)
6:25
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Pt. 1)
4:48
The Travels of Marco Polo (Pt. 1)
4:40
The Battle of Brunanburh (Old English Poem) (10th Century)