Richard Miles (GBR)

Richard Miles (born 1969) is a British historian and archaeologist, best known for presenting two major historical documentary series: BBC2's Ancient Worlds (2010), which presented a comprehensive overview of classical history and the dawn of civilization, and BBC Four's Archaeology: a Secret History (2013).

Miles studied ancient history and archaeology at the University of Liverpool and sat for a PhD in classics at the University of Cambridge. He is an associate professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at theUniversity of Sydney. His research primarily concerns Punic and Late Roman history and archaeology.

He has directed archaeological digs in Carthage and Rome, and in 2010 he published Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Mediterranean Civilisation. He also hosted the two part series "Carthage: The Roman Holocaust", which focuses upon the war between Carthage and Rome.

Works: 

Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity (Routledge, 1999) ISBN 978-0-415-19406-8
Carthage Must Be Destroyed (Allen Lane, 2010) ISBN 978-0-7139-9793-4; Paperback (Penguin, 2011) ISBN 978-0-14-101809-6
The Vandals (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). ISBN 978-1-4051-6068-1
Ancient Worlds: The Search for the Origins of Western Civilization (Allen Lane, 2010) ISBN 978-0-7139-9794-1

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Miles_(historian)