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Some of Italy’s most celebrated paintings were created using the ancient technique of fresco, of which a significant number are located in the Veneto.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is one of art history’s most fascinating personalities: a painter of genius and a man possessed of a violent, mercurial temperament.

After its long awaited opening, the Grand Egyptian Museum is now open and for the first time all the treasures from Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb are on display together. In this lecture Lucia reveals many lesser-known but wonderful items.

The distinctive landscapes of Oman were shaped by the ancient trade routes that crossed them, conveying luxury goods such as spices, textiles and incense between Africa, Arabia and the wider world of the Indian Ocean.

Between the 2nd and the 4th centuries CE, the mosaic workshops in the cities of the Roman Provinces of Africa (modern western Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco) excelled in the production of high quality coloured figurative and geometric pattern mosaics

Hagia Sofia is one of the greatest buildings in the world, and for much of its early history was considered indistinguishable from heaven itself. This talk examines the engineering of its ‘suspended’ dome and the rich shimmer of its interior.

This lecture focuses on two contrasting places of sacred importance, close by, but separated by more than three millennia of time, Kilmartin and Iona in Scotland.

Slovenia is both modest and marvellous. A small country, Slovenia is a borderland of verdant valleys, lakes, caves, and escarpments. Fresh-aired, gourmand and sociable, no place in Slovenia is distant.

The ancient city of Petra is characterised by the hundreds of monumental tombs that are carved in its rocky landscape. What is inside these tombs?

For nearly a thousand years from about 600 BCE onwards, travellers and pilgrims came from all over the Mediterranean world to the remote, windswept island of Samothrace to be initiated into the mystery cult of the Great gods.