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Richard Monroe Miles is an American diplomat.
Richard Miles may refer to:
- Richard Miles (diplomat) (born 1937), US diplomat
- Richard Miles (historian) (born 1969), UK historian
- Richard Miles (Tswana catechist), Motswana (Tswana) catechist and preacher in South Africa
- Dick Miles (1925–2010), American table tennis player
Richard Miles (born in Pembury, Kent, 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 under Professor Peter Garnsey at Jesus College, Cambridge. He is an associate professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, and director of the Arts Career Ready Programme at the University 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 Channel Four Television Corporation series Carthage: The Roman Holocaust (2004), which focuses upon the war between Carthage and Rome.