In 1974, 29 years after the end of the Second World War, Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda finally surrendered after almost three decades of fighting a guerilla campaign on a remote island in the Philippines. But why did he keep fighting? Are humans just inherently warlike?
In our latest documentary on History Hit, Dr. Nam C. Kim and Dr. Marc Kissel guide us in a journey backwards through time to uncover the earliest signs of warfare; joined on the way by ancient weapons expert Dr. Annemieke Milks and primatologist Dr. Bonaventura 'Bino' Majolo, to answer the big question - is warfare just part of our nature?
Classicist and national treasure Mary Beard speaks to Dan about Ancient Rome and its emperors.
Rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century through the work of British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, the Minoan Civilization, whose earliest beginnings were from c. 3500 BC on the island of Crete, became one of the most developed, complex urban civilizations in antiquity. Yet we still kn...
To date, there are over 500 different aboriginal 'nations' in Australia, all with distinctive cultures, beliefs, languages and unique histories. Since the arrival of Captain James Cook and the subsequent colonisation of the continent, many of these indigenous populations were, and continue to be ...
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