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Over thirty years ago I sat and watched a programme on British television about Tutankhamen. I still remember the frisson - the realisation that the stories I'd heard; of boy-kings dripping in gold; of hidden burial chambers and court intrigue could, sometimes, be true.
That BBC documentary was inspirational. I've been fortunate enough to spend my adult life following my own research interests - and delight in being able to share the results with a wider public.
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In each episode Bettany travels across the Roman world, delving into th...
Bettany Hughes' book, 'Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities' will be available to purchase on 12th September in the USA, and can be pre-ordered on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. 'Istanbul' is already available for purchase in the UK and internationally, and has been selec...
Bettany Hughes’ series ‘Genius of the Ancient World’ and ‘Genius of the Modern World’ originally broadcast on the BBC are now available to view on Netflix in the US, Canada, Spain, Brazil and Asia. Bettany traces the lives of six great thinkers that have shaped the mod...
BBC Arts feature - read the full article here.
Fortunately for today’s readers, the historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes has [an] outlook, sufficiently wide to encompass everything from the earliest spear-carrying bronze age inhabitants to marauding ancient Greeks, Christian-slaughtering Roman emperors, pious B...
Bettany's new book, a cultural history of Istanbul, will be released in January 2017, and is available to pre-order.
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...
A new series which reveals the history of ten of the most influential ideas in the story of civilisation; ideas which continue to affect us all today.
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