Beyond The Palaces

Beyond the Palaces explores how ordinary people lived in the ancient world: what they ate, where they lived, how they worked, traded, paid and got their water.

Every week, a new 10-minute video answers one question about daily life in ancient Rome, Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia, China, the Indus Valley and the Americas, using the best available evidence and saying plainly where historians are unsure.

Historical scenes are illustrated reconstructions.

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