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Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza
Art by Lachlan (Feature History)
Art by Bilal Erlangga
Stock footage from Storyblocks and Artlist. Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist.

Excerpts from:

The History of Herodotus
Translated into English by G. C. Macaulay
The Periplus of Hanno
Translated by Wilfred Harvey Schoff
Germania by Tacitus
Translated by Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodriff
Weilue Translation from China and the Roman Orient: Researches Into Their Ancient and Mediæval Relations
by Friedrich Hirth
Ammianus Marcellinus in three volumes. Vol.2 Translated by Rolfe, John Carew

00:00 Herodotus on The Edges of the Earth (430 BC)
05:01 Hanno The Navigator on West Africa (5th Century BC)
08:48 Tacitus on Scandinavia (98 AD)
13:23 Ancient China on Rome (240 AD)
20:05 Rome on Ancient China (380 AD)