Travel back to the ancient world and experience how life was lived in some of the world's first empires and civilizations with these two engaging ancient history courses.

Start with Ancient Empires before Alexander, your opportunity to finally complete your knowledge of the ancient world. These 36 fascinating lectures provide you with a comprehensive look at history's first empires: Akkad, Assyria, Babylon, Hatti, Carthage, and more. Professor Robert L. Dise Jr. examines these fascinating kingdoms as they endure the struggles, successes, and failures of establishing an empire. Follow these thrilling realms as they rise to glory, establish administrative and military systems, clash with one another, and eventually collapse. Spanning thousands of years of human history and encompassing regions both familiar and forgotten, this course is an unforgettable way to explore the legacies of the world's earliest empires—in all their marvelous diversity.

Then, delve even deeper into one of history's grandest civilizations: ancient Egypt. In The History of Ancient Egypt, award-winning Professor Bob Brier guides you through the full 3,000 years of recorded ancient Egyptian history. In 48 lectures, you discover a wealth of insights about this extraordinary—yet mysterious—civilization and immerse yourself in a world filled with mummies, pyramids, pharaohs, tombs, hieroglyphics, and much more. Combining the precision and care of a scientist with a novelist's feel for plot, action, and character, Professor Brier's approach brings together the best that the narrative and scientific schools of history have to offer, resulting in a marvelous re-creation of a culture to which the modern world is forever indebted.