Romulus to Caesar in four hours: Odyssey's long Roman Empire documentary
The same week brought Greek sculptors meeting the Buddha in Gandhara, a day among Anglo-Saxon reenactors and a tour of archaeology's great hoaxes.
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4 Hours of Facts About The Roman Empire
"4 Hours of Facts About The Roman Empire" asks how a small, ordinary Italian town became the ancient world's greatest empire, and it takes its time answering. The description runs from the myth of Romulus and Remus through Julius Caesar's campaigns to Roman engineering, political betrayals and the slavery that kept the whole machine running. It is the most watched of four documentaries Odyssey, the ancient history channel from the History Hit network, posted this week, past 60,000 views in six days and still the busiest thing on the channel each day.
The comments are as much about the format as the content. Several viewers say they simply like the long ones, one is grateful for a lengthy history video made by people, and fans of the Rome: Total War strategy games have turned up to sign in.
The rest of the week wandered widely. "How Ancient Greece Shaped The Buddha's First Image" went to Gandhara, the kingdom where Alexander the Great's legacy met Buddhism along the Silk Road and where some of the earliest human statues of the Buddha were carved. The Swords of Pender reenactment group cooked, trained and made jewelry for "Could You Survive as an Anglo-Saxon Warrior?", and on Friday a documentary on archaeology's hoaxes and propaganda made a quick start of its own.
The channel as a whole ran a little below its usual daily pace, with about a million views over seven days. Among the documentary channels nearest its size, that put Odyssey in the middle, while RocaNews and Channel 4 Documentaries had the biggest weeks. A two-week-old film on forest monks living by rules unchanged for 2,500 years is still finding viewers too.
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- Subscribers
- 1,050,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,047,032
- Videos published this week
- 4
- Video published
- September 28, 2026
- Video views so far
- 61,142
- Views on its first day
- 27,048
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