The Ancients

30 Jul 2025

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In this special episode of the Ancients, released just hours after the embargo on new research was l...

27 Jul 2025

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Why was London transformed from a bustling Roman metropolis into a ghost town by the fifth century?T...

24 Jul 2025

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Epic heroes, sacred rivers & ancient gods – this is Irish mythology as you’ve never heard it. Fr...

20 Jul 2025

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As part of our week of Sharks on the Ancients, today we tell the story of Megalodon, the largest liv...

17 Jul 2025

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Long before the first dinosaurs, the first trees or even the formation of the rings of Saturn, our p...

13 Jul 2025

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A figure of wealth, wisdom, and global fascination - how did the Queen of Sheba become one of histor...

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr. Rachel Bynoe who has literally dived into the enigmatic world of Dog...

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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It was perhaps Hannibal’s greatest gamble — after years of victories, not least his famed trek a...

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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Today we journey into the creation of Plato's Republic. Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr. James Romm t...

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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If you've heard of the mysterious and often controversial Apocryphal Gospels, you may have been told...

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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As a 4,000-year-old timber circle uncovered on a Norfolk beach, Seahenge is one of Britain’s most ...

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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Before he became one of Rome’s most infamous tyrants, Nero was a golden boy - young, talented, and...

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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As Rome rose to power, pirates seized the seas - wreaking havoc from Spain to Syria and challenging ...

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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What makes the Amazons one of the most captivating myths in ancient Greek culture?Tristan Hughes is ...

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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Embark on an epic journey with Tristan Hughes and acclaimed author William Dalrymple as they unravel...

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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Tristan Hughes journeys into the heart of one of history's most intriguing civilisations: the Minoan...

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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How is the unique narrative of the Ark of the Covenant deeply rooted in Ethiopian culture and tradit...

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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Buried in ash, frozen in time—Pompeii offers one of the most extraordinary windows into everyday l...

Thu, 29 May 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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Long before telescopes or space agencies, ancient Mesopotamians were decoding the secrets of the cos...

Sun, 25 May 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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What happened after Alexander the Great died?On June 11, 323 BC, at just 32 years old, Alexander lef...

Thu, 22 May 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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Saxon mercenaries, collapsing Roman order, and a new chapter for Britain. Tristan Hughes is joined b...

Sun, 18 May 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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1700 years ago, the Roman Emperor Constantine called an unprecedented meeting of early Christian lea...

Thu, 15 May 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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No grand battle. No final blaze of glory. In 476 AD, the Western Roman Empire collapsed not with a r...

Sun, 11 May 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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War, invasion, civil unrest… or plague? Could a series of deadly pandemics have helped bring down ...

Thu, 08 May 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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How did the Huns, Goths, and Vandals help bring down the Roman Empire - and sack the city of Rome it...

Sun, 04 May 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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The Roman Empire, once an ancient powerhouse, experienced a dramatic fall from its golden age to eve...

Thu, 01 May 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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An astonishing ancient tomb is Ireland's most famous prehistoric monument; Newgrange. Tristan Hughes...

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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From clashing rocks to golden treasure, Jason and the Argonauts is the ultimate Greek mythological a...

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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From the steppes of prehistoric Eurasia to the languages we speak today, the story of Indo-European ...

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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From Gladiator to Rome Total War to I, Claudius, today the Cohortēs praetōriae are one of the most...

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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From the wilderness of ancient Judea to the pages of the New Testament, John the Baptist is one of t...

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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*This episode discusses sexual assault*Cursed by Apollo to always speak the truth but never be belie...

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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70 AD. Tens of thousands of Roman troops surround Jerusalem. What follows is one of the most brutal ...

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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How did we go from ancient apes to the dominant species on Earth? The story of human evolution is on...

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius unleashed devastation on the Roman world, burying entire towns beneath volc...

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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In the heart of ancient Nigeria, a mysterious civilisation flourished - known today only through arc...

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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Tristan Hughes explores Ancient America's true age; how 19th-century fossil discoveries across North...

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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In 404 BC, Athens faced total defeat. Once the dominant power of the Greek world, their navy was sha...

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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A story of war, honour, and destiny, The Iliad is one of the greatest epics in history. Written by H...

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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Julius Caesar is one of history’s most famous figures. But before his legendary conquests and roma...

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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Ancient Egyptian obelisks stand as towering symbols of power and engineering brilliance, scattered a...

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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What really happened to the damned cities of Sodom and Gomorrah? Tristan Hughes and Dr. Dylan Johnso...

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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Long before Stonehenge, ancient builders in southeast Türkiye were creating some of the world’s f...

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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Few figures in Greek mythology embody vengeance like Elektra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra...

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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In 486 BC, King Xerxes ascended the Persian throne, inheriting its vast and glittering world empire....

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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As Ice Age Britain thawed, temperatures surged, sea levels rose, and humans and animals faced a figh...

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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490 BC. On the plains of Marathon, Athens faced down a mighty army of the Persian Empire - the super...

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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For hundreds of thousands of years Neanderthals have roamed the lands of what is today Europe and we...

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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Known as the barbarians of the north, the Scythians were expert horsemen that roamed the great stepp...

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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Giant kangaroos. Killer wombats. Carnivorous lions. These beasts once roamed the barren landscape of...

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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From twisted flax to one-legged ibises, Egyptian hieroglyphs offer a window into the heart of ancien...

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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Towering over 11 feet tall and weighing 6 tonnes, the Woolly Mammoth ruled the Ice Age. But how did ...

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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The Year of the Snake is here! But how did a legendary tale of twelve animals shape Chinese astronom...

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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Beyond the ancient Nile’s fertile banks lay a civilisation that rivalled Egypt in power and presti...

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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The biblical story of creation is famous - but did you know an even older myth may have influenced i...

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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How did the Franks rise to power in the fragmented Western Roman Empire?Tristan Hughes explores the ...

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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43 AD. A large Roman armada sails across the perilous English Channel intent on conquest. It is the ...

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 03:00:00 GMT

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Over 4,000 years ago, Sargon of Akkad carved his name into history by forging what many consider the...

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 03:00:19 GMT

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What happens when emperors are murdered more often than they die of natural causes? Tristan Hughes i...

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 03:00:38 GMT

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The story of Atlantis is one of history's enduring legends. So what’s the actual, ancient tale of ...

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 03:00:46 GMT

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Was King Arthur a real historical figure or merely a mythical hero?Tristan Hughes and Dr. Miles Russ...

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 03:00:24 GMT

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How did Constantine the Great conquer his rivals and shape the Roman Empire?Tristan Hughes discusses...

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 03:00:49 GMT

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Did Herod really order the massacre of thousands of infants? Tristan Hughes revisits the scandalous ...

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 03:00:32 GMT

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Aligning with the winter solstice of 2024, Tristan Hughes and Professor Ronald Hutton delve into the...

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:00:52 GMT

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Gold has shaped human history for several millennia. But how and when did it first turn into currenc...

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 03:00:37 GMT

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They were ancient masters of cavalry, creators of dazzling treasures, and the ancestors of the legen...

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 03:00:10 GMT

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The Three Wise Men were kings, magicians, more than three, on camels, walking across deserts and the...

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 03:00:34 GMT

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It's perhaps the best known Jewish festival of the year, but what exactly are Hanukkah's origins, an...

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 03:00:58 GMT

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It is one of the most pivotal inventions in human history - the wheel.New research suggests that the...

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 03:00:49 GMT

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The prehistoric archaeology of South America is fascinating and constantly developing.Tristan Hughes...

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 03:00:03 GMT

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Before Rome came the Etruscans - they were the dominant culture in ancient Italy in the centuries be...

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 03:00:18 GMT

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The Tower of Babel story is iconic. Featured in the Book of Genesis, it explains how different langu...

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 03:00:42 GMT

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A group of hunter-gatherers encounter diverse habitats full of creatures they’ve never seen before...

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 03:00:08 GMT

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Denzel Washington stars as Emperor Macrinus in the epic new movie Gladiator II, but who exactly was ...

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 03:00:11 GMT

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The new Hollywood blockbuster Gladiator II features two of Rome's most villainous emperors - the bro...

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 06:54:11 GMT

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Half man and half bull, the Minotaur is one of the most famous, and scariest, monsters of Greek myth...

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 03:00:17 GMT

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Today, we often see the Amazon basin as an endless expanse of trees and rainforest. But 2,000 years ...

Sun, 03 Nov 2024 03:00:52 GMT

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From the arrival of the first humans reaching the Japanese archipelago some 50,000 years ago to the ...

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 03:00:03 GMT

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When they were discovered in the Qumran Caves in the mid-20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls revoluti...

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 03:00:30 GMT

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It’s 279 BC. On a large plain in Southern Italy near the town of Asculum, a famous Greek warlord l...

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 02:00:16 GMT

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In this instalment of The Ancients we're going north of the Arctic circle to uncover the incredible ...

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 02:00:31 GMT

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In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s death his former generals carved out their own kingdoms ...

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 02:00:11 GMT

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What was the most popular sporting spectacle in ancient Rome? Gladiator bouts? Beast hunts? It was i...

Sun, 13 Oct 2024 02:00:34 GMT

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The Edomites are in the Old Testament, an ancient people who lived around Petra, Jordan before the N...

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:00:52 GMT

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Tristan Hughes and his guest Dr. Joyce Tyldesley OBE are heading to the Underworld for the final ins...

Sun, 06 Oct 2024 02:00:22 GMT

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One of the most famous and recognisable Persian kings of antiquity, Darius the Great was an Achaemen...

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 02:00:30 GMT

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The story of Osiris and how he became King of the Dead is a gruesome tale and one of the most famous...

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 02:00:35 GMT

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It’s 146 BC. Fire rises high over the North African coast. The once-thriving port city of Carthage...

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 02:00:39 GMT

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Isis, Hathor, Sekhmet and Bastet were adored and honoured in Ancient Egypt, with their stories passe...

Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:00:31 GMT

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67 million years ago the most famous meat-eating dinosaur prowled the earth - the Tyrannosaurus Rex....

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:00:29 GMT

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Of all the Egyptian Gods it is Ra, the God of the Sun, who is perhaps most well known in the popular...

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 02:00:54 GMT

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In the early 5th century AD, after almost four centuries of iron-fisted Roman rule, the empire in Br...

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 02:00:54 GMT

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The legends of Ra and Hathor, of Osiris and Isis, of Anubis and Set have been passed from mouth to e...

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 02:00:02 GMT

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2000 years ago, in the year 9 AD, a Roman Army walked into a trap deep in wilds of Germania. Over 15...

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 02:00:32 GMT

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Ancient India was the single greatest trading partner of the Roman Empire. For centuries, Indian sai...

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 02:00:46 GMT

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Tristan Hughes travels to the site of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, one of the most epic defea...

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 02:00:25 GMT

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Despite being one of the most visited historic spots on the planet today, Petra was once a so-called...

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 02:00:44 GMT

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The word 'Sirens' conjures up many images, possibly of beautiful mermaid-like creatures luring sailo...

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 02:00:22 GMT

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It's one of the most popular alcoholic drinks in the world. But did you know that beer is also one o...

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 02:00:03 GMT

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Cats! These much loved furry friends have brightened people’s lives for millenia. And it was the s...

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 02:00:24 GMT

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It is the most famous monument of ancient Greece. Its remains standing tall above modern Athens toda...

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 02:00:22 GMT

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Overlooking the Argolid Plain in the eastern Peloponnese, Mycenae was once the envy of the Mediterra...

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 02:00:39 GMT

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Known as one of Rome's worst emperors, Commodus is famed for both his infamy and bravado. Ascending ...

Sun, 04 Aug 2024 02:00:49 GMT

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The Olympics. It’s the most famous sporting event in the world, and the 33rd Olympiad is taking pl...

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 02:00:49 GMT

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As both the eldest and youngest child of the great titan Kronos, and the Greek goddess of hearth and...

Sun, 28 Jul 2024 02:00:01 GMT

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Just over 1,000 years ago, the ancient Maya world in Mesoamerica was turned upside down. Prominent c...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 02:00:58 GMT

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The ferocious, professional fighters who fought in great arenas all across the Roman Empire for the ...

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 02:00:55 GMT

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For more than 100,000 years, Neanderthals made their home in Ice Age Britain, right on the edge of t...

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 02:00:36 GMT

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The Pyramid of the Sun is ancient America’s Great Pyramid of Giza. Built in the legendary city of ...

Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:00:41 GMT

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Do all roads lead to Rome? We find out in today's episode all about one of the Roman Empire's greate...

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 02:00:45 GMT

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It’s the end of the 12th century BC, and a once remarkable Near eastern world lay in ruin. Drought...

Sun, 07 Jul 2024 02:00:03 GMT

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More than 3,000 years ago, a coalition of Bronze Age rulers existed across the Near Eastern world. K...

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 02:00:46 GMT

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The crisis of the Roman Republic is a period littered with iconic male power players. Julius Caesar,...

Sat, 29 Jun 2024 02:00:39 GMT

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Temple Mount is one of the most sacred places in Jerusalem. A rocky outcrop that has become importan...

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 02:00:09 GMT

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The story of the ancient kingdom of Israel is a central part of the Old Testament. Famous for its ki...

Sun, 23 Jun 2024 02:00:53 GMT

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Tristan Hughes continues the Greek Gods and Goddesses series with today’s deity; the most popular ...

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 02:00:11 GMT

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The Ark of the Covenant is one of the most famous, yet mysterious, objects mentioned in the Hebrew B...

Sun, 16 Jun 2024 02:00:51 GMT

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The Celts are an ancient people shrouded in mystery and intrigue. In the minds of most people the wo...

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:00:17 GMT

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The story of Moses and the Exodus is one of the oldest and most well known in history. It is full of...

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 02:00:41 GMT

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The Parthians were heavyweights of ancient Mesopotamia. Hailing from what is now modern day Iran, th...

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 02:00:43 GMT

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The Ancients launches a new miniseries exploring the stories, people, objects and kingdoms central t...

Sun, 02 Jun 2024 02:00:20 GMT

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After the death of his patron Julius Caesar, the Roman world was Mark Antony’s for the taking. His...

Thu, 30 May 2024 02:00:09 GMT

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Mark Antony; the headstrong bad boy, a feared commander, lover and traitor memorably depicted by Ric...

Sat, 25 May 2024 02:00:54 GMT

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It's the most famous Roman frontier in the world. A massive c.13-foot high wall that spanned the len...

Wed, 22 May 2024 02:00:25 GMT

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‘I am Spartacus!’ In the field of epic film making, the 1960 historical drama ‘Spartacus’ is...

Sun, 19 May 2024 02:00:07 GMT

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Dionysus. He's known as the party God of ancient Greece who you never wanted to cross. Associated wi...

Wed, 15 May 2024 02:00:49 GMT

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Caligula. One of the most infamous Roman emperors of them all. He didn't rule Rome for long, but he ...

Sat, 11 May 2024 02:00:11 GMT

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Cleopatra. It is one of the most recognisable names in ancient history, made famous by the exploits ...

Wed, 08 May 2024 02:00:22 GMT

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Nineveh was one of the great cities of ancient Mesopotamia. Situated on the eastern bank of the Rive...

Sat, 04 May 2024 02:00:06 GMT

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The Silk Road was a pivotal ancient exchange network that connected the grassy steppes of Asia and t...

Thu, 02 May 2024 02:00:55 GMT

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Auxiliaries were some of the most important troops in the all-conquering Roman Army. Unlike legionar...

Sat, 27 Apr 2024 02:00:35 GMT

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The Beaker People were a Bronze Age culture that revolutionised prehistoric Britain. They were respo...

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 02:00:42 GMT

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The Library of Alexandria was one of the most important and most celebrated buildings of the ancient...

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 02:00:59 GMT

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Apollo, the favourite son of Zeus and twin brother of Artemis, was a Greek God with many faces. Perh...

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 02:00:38 GMT

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The Goths are renowned for many things, not least sacking Rome in 410 AD and helping to bring about ...

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 02:00:54 GMT

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Have you ever wondered about the dark side of archeology? The illegal seizing of ancient artefacts? ...

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:00:11 GMT

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Europe’s earliest known humans lived over 1.2 million years ago. After initially roaming the plain...

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 02:00:08 GMT

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Would you be able to survive in ancient Babylonia?In this episode, Tristan is joined once again by A...

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 02:00:33 GMT

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The Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the most iconic monuments from ancient history. 73 meters in leng...

Sun, 31 Mar 2024 02:00:35 GMT

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Pontius Pilate was the Roman Prefect of Judea during the reign of Emperor Tiberius and is most famou...

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 03:00:20 GMT

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The Pantheon is one of the greatest Roman monuments still standing. First built as a pagan temple by...

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 03:00:32 GMT

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Over 13,000 years ago, Britain emerged from the ravages of the Ice Age as a changed land. Mesolithic...

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 03:00:30 GMT

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It's one of the most iconic structures in the world: The Great Wall of China.But is it just one wall...

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 03:00:21 GMT

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Artemis is best known as the goddess of the Hunt. But she is far more than just the famed huntress o...

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:00:04 GMT

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The ancient metropolis of Babylon was famed for its wonders like the Tower of Babel and the mysterio...

Sun, 10 Mar 2024 03:00:31 GMT

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Wine is one of the most popular alcoholic beverages in the world. But its popularity dates back thou...

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 03:00:42 GMT

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The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only ‘Wonder of the Ancient World’ still standing. Built over 4...

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 03:00:39 GMT

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Zenobia, queen of the glittering city state of Palmyra, was a titan of the third century Near-East. ...

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 03:00:38 GMT

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The Silver Pharaohs refers to a lesser-known set of ancient Egyptian rulers of the 21st Dynasty, nam...

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 03:00:20 GMT

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The Romans were renowned for their military prowess and skill. Their legions successfully conquered ...

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:00:49 GMT

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Famed as one of Rome’s fiercest enemies, the city of Carthage was one of the jewels of the ancient...

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:00:21 GMT

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Roughly 40,000 years ago, Ice Age Britain was undergoing a transformation. The first modern hum...

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:00:57 GMT

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Lucius Cornellius Sulla Felix is one of the most important Roman statesmen of antiquity. An inspirat...

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:00:01 GMT

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The Sasanians are renowned as one of Rome's most feared enemies. Founded in third century Persia by ...

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:00:06 GMT

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The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest surviving works of storytelling in history. It begins wit...

Sun, 04 Feb 2024 03:00:47 GMT

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The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest surviving works of storytelling from history. Written in ...

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 03:00:09 GMT

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For millennia dogs have been undoubtedly man’s best friend. But when did humans first start keepin...

Sun, 28 Jan 2024 03:00:58 GMT

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Famed as the herald of the Greek gods, Hermes is the ‘jack of all trades’ when it comes to the p...

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:00:55 GMT

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This is everything you need to know about the famed conqueror Alexander the Great. Alongside Dan Sno...

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 03:00:06 GMT

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Lascaux Cave is an Ice Age wonder. Its walls and ceilings are adorned with stunning depictions of bi...

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 03:00:24 GMT

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Marcus Tullius Cicero is one of the most famous orators in ancient history, and a central figure dur...

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:00:28 GMT

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The Bronze Age Collapse was one of the most cataclysmic events in human history. Over just a few dec...

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:00:10 GMT

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Over 10,000 years ago, many believe Ireland was a place where hunter-gatherers roamed. A place where...

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 03:00:16 GMT

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The ancient city of Jericho is often thought to be the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in t...

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This episode contains a reference to animal crueltyWould you be able to survive in ancient Rome?Toda...

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Zeus, the chief deity in Greek mythology, is the Olympian god of sky and thunder, and is king of all...

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 03:00:43 GMT

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March 15th 44BC is perhaps the most notorious date in all of ancient history. On that fateful day, t...

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He was one of the greatest enemies the Romans ever faced. An excellent general and a larger-than-lif...

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This episode contains graphic references to sex, infant mortality, and sexual assault.While Spartans...

Sat, 16 Dec 2023 03:00:47 GMT

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Marked by shifting alliances, chaotic power struggles, and devastating consequences - the Peloponnes...

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 03:00:09 GMT

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Jesus of Nazareth is one of the most famous figures in history. Believed to be the Son of God in Chr...

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 03:00:32 GMT

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One of the most famed classes of soldiers from antiquity, the Spartan warrior has been immortalised ...

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 03:00:48 GMT

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Demeter is the Goddess of the Harvest and Agriculture in Ancient Greek mythology.Mother of Persephon...

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 03:00:37 GMT

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Considered one of Athens' biggest rivals, and known for their bloodthirsty and brutal nature - there...

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When you think of spies, images of suave men in suits sipping martinis tend to come to mind - not, w...

Sun, 26 Nov 2023 03:00:47 GMT

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Known for bringing about the fall of the Western Roman Empire - the Vandals have a reputation of vio...

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 03:00:27 GMT

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While a small, uninhabited island today, Keros held significant importance during the Bronze Age. As...

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 03:00:36 GMT

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Despite being uncovered in the 16th Century - new finds are still being discovered daily in Pompeii....

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 03:00:14 GMT

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Gold and horses! Few ancient civilisations were greater masters of metalworking and horse riding tha...

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This episode contains references to death and sexual assault.Persephone is Queen of the Underworld i...

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 03:00:48 GMT

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Inhabiting the Balkans in antiquity, the Illyrians played a vital role in Ancient History. From thei...

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:00:38 GMT

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Throughout history, the area today known as Gaza has often been a contentious site. Its historical s...

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:00:43 GMT

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Homo longi, also known as Dragon Man, is an extinct archaic human species - with a nearly complete s...

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 03:00:53 GMT

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From seductive sorceresses to withered necromancers, witches play a varied - and vital - role in anc...

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 02:00:12 GMT

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Stretching across from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, Northern Africa is dominated by the Sahara...

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This episode contains strong language, and references to sexual assault.Alexander the Great - conque...

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 02:00:13 GMT

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When you think of the 'Ice Age', tales of saber-toothed predators and hulking megafauna probably com...

Sun, 15 Oct 2023 02:00:44 GMT

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This episode contains references to death and sexual assault.Hades is King of the the dead and the U...

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 02:00:52 GMT

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Ötzi, otherwise known as the Iceman, is a renowned glacial mummy uncovered in 1991 in the Tyrolean ...

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:00:00 GMT

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One of the oldest inhabited cities in the world, Tyre was a jewel of the Ancient World. A Phoenician...

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 02:00:23 GMT

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When you think of Gladiators you tend to think of Roman Amphitheatres, Hollywood films, and probably...

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 07:30:06 GMT

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Part 2/2. Of unknown authorship, the Dead Sea Scrolls - also known as the Qumran Scrolls - are some ...

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 02:00:02 GMT

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When examining the role of the Emperor within the Roman Empire, it is often easier to focus on the i...

Sun, 24 Sep 2023 02:00:41 GMT

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Part 1/2. Potentially one of the most important archaeological discoveries ever, the Dead Sea Scroll...

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 02:00:16 GMT

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One of the greatest Pharaohs from Ancient Egypt, Ramesses II is renowned for commissioning some of t...

Sun, 17 Sep 2023 02:00:06 GMT

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The Harappan civilisation, also known as the Indus Valley civilisation, was an ancient urban civilis...

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 02:00:35 GMT

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When you picture ancient Roman Soldiers, an image of battle-hardened warriors equipped with iron bre...

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 02:00:55 GMT

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Where do you begin to understand the origins of Chinese civilization? Located near the Yangtze River...

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 02:00:21 GMT

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This episode contains references to sexual assault.Medusa stands as one of the most iconic yet misco...

Sun, 03 Sep 2023 02:00:57 GMT

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When you think of inventions that helped change the course of history, it's doubtful Olive Oil makes...

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 02:00:19 GMT

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This episode contains references to scenes that some listeners may find distressingIn 79 AD, ancient...

Sun, 27 Aug 2023 02:00:47 GMT

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With a history stretching back thousands of years, it’s about time that the Ancients started looki...

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 02:00:26 GMT

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An extinct species of archaic human, Homo floresiensis has been discovered solely in one, very speci...

Sun, 20 Aug 2023 02:00:18 GMT

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This episode contains some strong language references to sexual content.Pompeii is shrouded in myths...

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 08:18:33 GMT

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Returning to one of the most infamous names in history, what happened to Attila the Hun after the de...

Sun, 13 Aug 2023 02:00:03 GMT

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This episode contains some references to graphic violence.Gladiators are one the most enduring symbo...

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 02:00:49 GMT

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One of the most powerful, and feared, leaders of history - Attila the Hun's legacy has persevered ov...

Sun, 06 Aug 2023 02:00:44 GMT

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The ancient city of Pompeii is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries on earth. Frozen in ti...

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 02:00:38 GMT

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The ancient Persian ruler who founded the Achaemenid Empire, known for his benevolent governance and...

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 02:00:45 GMT

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One of the new Seven Wonders of the World, Chichen Itza is home to monumental pyramids, temples, and...

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 02:00:16 GMT

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God of the sea, earthquakes, and horses, Poseidon is one of the most iconic Olympians.In this episod...

Sun, 23 Jul 2023 02:00:23 GMT

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Stonehenge. The most iconic prehistoric monument in the world. And yet its story is still so enigmat...

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:00:28 GMT

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Uncovered a decade ago in the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa, Homo Naledi's discovery has i...

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 02:00:57 GMT

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The largest of the Channel Islands, when you think of Jersey, it's doubtful that Neanderthals, Wooll...

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:34:19 GMT

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Helen of Troy, the face that launched a thousand ships - but is there more to her than a beautiful f...

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 02:00:49 GMT

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Evolving from an obscure ancient ruler to a contemporary national icon, Chandragupta Maurya's story ...

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 02:00:55 GMT

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The last monument to be added to the list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Lighthouse ...

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 02:00:29 GMT

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Discovered in a German cave, days before the Second World War broke out, the Lion Man statue remaine...

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 02:00:20 GMT

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As the Babylonian Empire fell into decline, and it's power faded, the Persian Empire stepped in to f...

Sun, 25 Jun 2023 02:00:07 GMT

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This episode contains themes of a sexual natureAchilles is one of the greatest heroes in Greek mytho...

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:00:08 GMT

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When you envision what Earth was like 4.5 billion years ago, shortly after its creation, images of d...

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 02:00:24 GMT

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Emerging around the 3rd century CE and later designated official adversaries of the Roman Empire, th...

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 02:00:52 GMT

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According to the work of today's guest, Dr Annemieke Milks, humans were using spears approximately 4...

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 02:00:09 GMT

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For millions of years, Australopithecus thrived in Africa's vast landscapes, laying the groundwork f...

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 02:00:29 GMT

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The fall of the Western Roman Empire stands as one of the most monumental moments in ancient history...

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:00:25 GMT

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The Celtic queen who led a major uprising against the Roman Empire in ancient Britain, Boudica, is a...

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 02:00:25 GMT

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Human and Horse relationships have long be intertwined; from the ancient Eurasian plain, through to ...

Sun, 28 May 2023 02:00:52 GMT

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When looking at the Hebrew Bible, the city of Babylon plays a prominent role - especially in the Old...

Thu, 25 May 2023 02:00:27 GMT

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An ancient clay artefact that dates back to the 6th century BCE, the Cyrus Cylinder is often conside...

Sun, 21 May 2023 02:00:06 GMT

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A legendary, ancient architectural wonder, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon are one of the most famed ...

Thu, 18 May 2023 02:00:51 GMT

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An ancient, colossal site in Northeastern Louisiana, Poverty Point is a mystery amongst archaeologis...

Sun, 14 May 2023 02:00:00 GMT

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One of the most famous Babylonian Kings - Nebuchadnezzar II was a legendary ruler who appears in bib...

Thu, 11 May 2023 02:00:03 GMT

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In this episode of The Ancients, host Tristan Hughes speaks with historian Honor Cargill-Martin abou...

Sun, 07 May 2023 02:00:49 GMT

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This episode contains references and words of a sexual nature.Did Alexander the Great and the Queen ...

Thu, 04 May 2023 02:00:53 GMT

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As Shirley Bassey once said, "He's the man. The man with the Midas touch." But who was the man that'...

Sun, 30 Apr 2023 02:00:47 GMT

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Perhaps a name better known for recent appearances in horror films - Lilith is a woman who's origins...

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 02:00:43 GMT

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When we think of democracy in the ancient Greek world, our minds often go straight to Athens, the pu...

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 02:00:18 GMT

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The legend of the Minotaur and its labyrinth has captivated us for centuries, but is there any evide...

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 02:00:05 GMT

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Invention and innovation are two concepts that have propelled humankind forward for as long as peopl...

Sun, 16 Apr 2023 02:00:11 GMT

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Across northern Scotland, you can still see the skeletal remains of prehistoric skyscrapers known as...

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 02:00:01 GMT

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In July 64AD, the Great Fire of Rome tore across the city, and ultimately burnt two thirds of Rome t...

Sun, 09 Apr 2023 02:00:17 GMT

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This episode contains graphic references of a sexual nature.Athena is the goddess of wisdom, tactica...

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 02:00:14 GMT

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At its pinnacle, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, a ...

Sun, 02 Apr 2023 02:00:05 GMT

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The Egyptian city of Alexandria was one of the greatest cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. F...

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 07:33:51 GMT

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Often thought of as an ancient, mythical idea, immortalised in the works of Homer, it's hard to imag...

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 02:00:37 GMT

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This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence and cruelty against animals.The Romans were -...

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:00:34 GMT

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Shrouded in mystery, the Nuragic culture was an enigmatic Bronze Age Civilisation that lived on the ...

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 03:00:51 GMT

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Over 100 miles further than the northern reaches of Britain, beyond Orkney, are a remote group of is...

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 03:00:18 GMT

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Perhaps best known from the Biblical tale of David and Goliath, the Philistines were an ancient civi...

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 03:00:44 GMT

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Ares is the god of war and bloodlust in Greek mythology.One of the twelve Olympian gods, Ares was of...

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 03:00:46 GMT

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Given his incredible career, you'd perhaps expect the name of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus to be ...

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 03:00:07 GMT

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Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest slammed into our planet, triggeri...

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 03:00:39 GMT

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Where do humans come from? Or, perhaps more interestingly, who did humans evolve from? A question on...

Sun, 26 Feb 2023 03:00:28 GMT

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Princess, Queen, and political influencer - Shirin should be a name as famed as Cleopatra, but how c...

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 03:00:46 GMT

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One of the oldest religions in the world, Buddhism is practiced by over 400 million people today, bu...

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 03:00:33 GMT

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The Bantu expansion was one of the most significant cultural events in human history. Sometime betwe...

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 03:00:35 GMT

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One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Colossus of Rhodes has lived on in legend - with ...

Sun, 12 Feb 2023 03:00:10 GMT

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Cleopatra VII is one of the most famous individuals from the ancient world. The final Queen of Ancie...

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 03:00:43 GMT

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Before modern humans walked the earth, and even before the Neanderthals, Homo Erectus dominated the ...

Sun, 05 Feb 2023 03:00:00 GMT

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This episode contains graphic references.Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty in Greek mythol...

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 03:00:27 GMT

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Carved into the Peruvian landscape over a millennia ago, the Nazca lines are some of the most famed,...

Sun, 29 Jan 2023 03:00:35 GMT

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Having dominated the earth for millions of years, it's no wonder Dinosaurs have always fascinated us...

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 03:00:43 GMT

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One of the most famous cities in history - Babylon is shrouded in mystery and myth. Located in ancie...

Sun, 22 Jan 2023 03:00:28 GMT

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Located in the US State of Ohio, the Great Serpent Mound is an iconic monument of Ancient America. N...

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:00:31 GMT

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The unofficial 8th wonder the Ancient World, the Parthenon is still standing today. Located on the A...

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 03:00:12 GMT

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Orkney, a group of islands off Britain’s north coast, famed for their stunning, rural scenery. But...

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 03:00:06 GMT

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This episode contains references to sexual assault and suicide.When you think of Ancient Rome, you d...

Sun, 08 Jan 2023 03:00:13 GMT

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This episode contains references to sexual assault and terms for groups which were classified that w...

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 03:00:53 GMT

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The results of a groundbreaking new study were released today [January 5th] by a group of researcher...

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 03:00:20 GMT

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‘I’m Spartacus!’ In the field of epic film making, the 1960 historical drama ‘Spartacus’, ...

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 03:00:02 GMT

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67 million people currently inhabit the United Kingdom - but what do we know about the original, fir...

Sun, 18 Dec 2022 03:00:12 GMT

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Often overshadowed by his more successful peers (anyone heard of Julius Caesar?), Crassus' rise and ...

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 03:00:06 GMT

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2000 BC saw the famed city of Babylon begin to flourish under the rule of a King called Hammurabi. R...

Sun, 11 Dec 2022 03:00:07 GMT

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Hera, the wife and sister of Zeus, goddess of marriage, royalty and women, is the Queen of the Gods ...

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 03:00:34 GMT

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With ancient Rome often being viewed as a mighty, impenetrable empire - it seems unlikely that one m...

Sun, 04 Dec 2022 03:00:07 GMT

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Most famously known as the birth place of Jesus, Bethlehem has been immortalised in texts, carols, a...

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 03:00:40 GMT

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A Mesopotamian metropolis that thrived for millennia, Uruk is even claimed by some to have been the ...

Sun, 27 Nov 2022 01:00:33 GMT

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Alexander the Great is one of the most famous figures from history. Legends and fantastical versions...

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 03:00:51 GMT

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Since the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the phenomenon of “Tutmani...

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 03:00:06 GMT

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Situated in the North of Italy, the Etruscan's were once a powerful civilisation, dominating the Ita...

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 03:00:54 GMT

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On the west bank of the Nile, across from the ancient city of Thebes, lies the Valley of the Kings -...

Sun, 13 Nov 2022 03:00:07 GMT

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Zeus, the chief deity in Greek mythology, is the Olympian god of sky and thunder, and is king of all...

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 03:00:59 GMT

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In November of 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter, thanks to benefactor Lord Carnarvon, disco...

Sun, 06 Nov 2022 03:00:32 GMT

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200,000 years ago in what is now Tibet, two children left a set of hand and foot prints on a travert...

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 03:00:51 GMT

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Tutankhamun is one of the most famous names in ancient history. Known as the 'Boy King', he ascended...

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 03:00:36 GMT

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Located in modern day Ukraine, Olbia was the largest ancient Greek settlement on the coast of the Bl...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 02:00:20 GMT

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Nicknamed the 8th wonder of the ancient world, the Colosseum still stands in splendour today. Locate...

Sun, 23 Oct 2022 02:00:39 GMT

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Born to slaves in 1863, John Wesley Gilbert was the first student of the Paine Institute, a graduate...

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 02:00:33 GMT

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One of Antiquity's greatest poets, Virgil's legacy is seen across history. Following in the footstep...

Sun, 16 Oct 2022 02:00:50 GMT

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Around 5200 years ago, during the Neolithic period, when farming first took hold, Orkney was a hugel...

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 02:00:57 GMT

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In July 1799 a group of French soldiers stumbled upon a stone that was set to change our understandi...

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 02:00:36 GMT

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History is littered with devastating accounts of prejudice that shines a harsh light on the atrociti...

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 02:00:03 GMT

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Recorded by Xenophon, the 10,000 were a force of Greek mercenaries employed by Cyrus the Younger, wi...

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 02:00:59 GMT

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In 43 AD, the Romans set up temporary forts along the banks of a river to wait for their Emperor, Cl...

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 02:00:58 GMT

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A friend of Merlin, the husband of Guinevere, and the inspiration for numerous Hollywood blockbuster...

Sun, 25 Sep 2022 02:00:13 GMT

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They’re big. They’re fierce. And they’re extinct. This is how today’s guest - palaeontologis...

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 02:00:58 GMT

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Located on the banks of the River Nile in Luxor, Egypt, the Karnak Temple complex is one of the larg...

Sun, 18 Sep 2022 02:00:41 GMT

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Located in the Northern Isles of Scotland, Orkney is a remote and wild environment. With over 5000 y...

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 02:00:08 GMT

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Neanderthals are stereotypically viewed as thoughtless savages - but is this an accurate depiction o...

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 19:30:00 GMT

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Queen Elizabeth II has died after 70 years on the British throne. Born in April 1926, Elizabeth Wind...

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 02:00:56 GMT

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One of the most famous names in history - who is Tutankhamun? In 1922 Howard Carter discovered one t...

Sun, 04 Sep 2022 02:00:31 GMT

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The Achaemenid Empire, or better known as the First Persian Empire, was one of the largest empires i...

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 02:00:51 GMT

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Prosthetics - an artificial feature or body part commonly used to either help restore functions of l...

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 02:00:33 GMT

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One of the largest archaeological sites in South America, located near Lake Titicaca in Western Boli...

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 02:00:27 GMT

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Known for their iconic ceramics and notable artwork - the Moche people flourished in ancient norther...

Sun, 21 Aug 2022 02:00:58 GMT

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One of the the earliest Mesoamerican civilisations discovered so far - Olmec influences are visible ...

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 02:00:54 GMT

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One of the oldest cities in history, and revered by religions across the world - what do we know abo...

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 02:00:42 GMT

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A jewel of Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan was a vibrant, painted city - but who built it? And who actually...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 02:00:22 GMT

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"If Croesus goes to war he will destroy a great empire." That was the prophecy the Oracle of De...

Sun, 07 Aug 2022 02:00:27 GMT

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One of the most famous, and sophisticated, cultures of Mesoamerica, why are the Maya known only for ...

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 02:00:59 GMT

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One of the most studied military victories in history, and arguably one of the worst Roman defeats -...

Sun, 31 Jul 2022 02:00:37 GMT

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One of the greatest military commanders in history - it's no wonder Hannibal and Rome so frequently ...

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 02:00:34 GMT

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In May 2020, four unique Roman artefacts were unearthed near Ampleforth, North Yorkshire by two amat...

Sun, 24 Jul 2022 02:00:13 GMT

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Towards the beginning of the Second Punic War on 21 June 217 BC, a Carthaginian force under Hannibal...

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 02:00:38 GMT

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Known as the Eternal City, ancient Rome was one of the greatest civilisations in human history, but ...

Sun, 17 Jul 2022 02:00:46 GMT

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Despite being one of the first civilisations in human history, Sumer is not as well-known as other B...

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 02:00:05 GMT

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Famed across the ages and around the world - everyone knows the name Cleopatra. But how did she beco...

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 02:00:58 GMT

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In the final part of our Samnite Wars episodes, Tristan is once again joined by Dr Kathryn Lomas fro...

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 02:00:59 GMT

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In this first episode of a two-parter on the Samnite Wars, we focus in on one of Rome’s greatest r...

Sun, 03 Jul 2022 02:00:41 GMT

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Dozens of incredible examples of prehistoric rock art have been found across western Europe in recen...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 02:00:05 GMT

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Ancient Sparta was co-opted by the Nazis as a supposed model civilisation for the Third Reich’s tw...

Sun, 26 Jun 2022 02:00:43 GMT

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Modern humans thrived in the Americas for thousands of years before the first European colonists arr...

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 02:00:59 GMT

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They survived extinction level events and record high global temperatures - how did mammals adapt an...

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 02:00:31 GMT

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Often pictured with a flowing white beard, looking down from Heaven - why is God always seen as an o...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 02:00:05 GMT

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The central Mediterranean is home to a bounty of creatures - fish, dolphins, and... mermaids? In tod...

Sun, 12 Jun 2022 02:00:57 GMT

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Alexander the Great’s untimely death at Babylon in 323 BC triggered an unprecedented crisis across...

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 02:00:47 GMT

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Clothing has been essential for human evolution. From protection against changing climate, through t...

Sun, 05 Jun 2022 02:00:48 GMT

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In 1919, excavators working near Edinburgh in Scotland unearthed the largest hoard of Roman hacksilv...

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 02:00:41 GMT

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Boudica has become a hero of British folklore. An ancient queen, her leadership of the Iceni in an u...

Sun, 29 May 2022 02:00:30 GMT

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Saint Patrick is a household name, celebrated around the globe every March. But what do we know abou...

Thu, 26 May 2022 02:00:08 GMT

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Greece and Rome, they are the heavyweights of ancient history. But what happened when they came face...

Sun, 22 May 2022 02:00:09 GMT

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The residents of Britain during the Iron Age are often collectively called 'Celts'. However, both be...

Thu, 19 May 2022 02:00:57 GMT

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The Iliad and the Odyssey are two of the world’s most famous poems. But who was their author, Home...

Sun, 15 May 2022 02:00:58 GMT

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What do we know about the earliest hominins to exist? With a story spanning one million years and co...

Thu, 12 May 2022 02:00:22 GMT

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The treatment of mental health has been rapidly growing and improving over the past few decades, but...

Sun, 08 May 2022 02:00:26 GMT

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According to Greek myth, Pandora was the first human woman - moulded from the earth by Hephaestus on...

Thu, 05 May 2022 02:00:07 GMT

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Described as the "most important piece of prehistoric art to be found in Britain in the last 100 yea...

Sun, 01 May 2022 02:00:28 GMT

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The rise of Christianity in the first few centuries AD is one of the most significant stories in wor...

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 02:00:27 GMT

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Poetry, parables, and produce - how did someone live a healthy life in the ancient Greco-Roman world...

Sun, 24 Apr 2022 02:00:34 GMT

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The 23rd of April marks Saint George's Day - but who are we actually celebrating? Is there any truth...

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 02:00:37 GMT

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When we think of the modern Mediterranean, delicious and vibrant food is one of the first things tha...

Sun, 17 Apr 2022 02:00:10 GMT

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Who was Mary Magdalene? Jesus' confidant, a devout follower, or a sex worker?In this Easter special,...

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:04:16 GMT

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When someone says the Terracotta Army, you’d be forgiven for instantly thinking of rows upon rows ...

Sun, 10 Apr 2022 02:00:07 GMT

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Gaius Marius (157 BC – 86 BC) was one of the first warlords of the late Roman Republic, a gen...

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 02:00:05 GMT

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Roman connections with Britain stretch back to (at least) the mid 1st century BC. But what has archa...

Sun, 03 Apr 2022 02:00:34 GMT

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In Ancient Greece, the symposium was no ordinary after-dinner drinking party, but one in which the H...

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 02:00:18 GMT

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Man's best friend has been at our side for thousands of years. Ancient Greece was no exception, and ...

Sun, 27 Mar 2022 02:00:43 GMT

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The legacies of the Ides of March stretch from that very afternoon on March 14th 44BC to the modern ...

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 03:00:04 GMT

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Dinosaurs! Spectacular resilient beings who were able to adapt and survive the most terrifying of ev...

Sun, 20 Mar 2022 03:00:06 GMT

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What happened after the Ides of March? How did the Romans go from co-ordinated assassinations to the...

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 03:00:15 GMT

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Man, myth or legend... who was the real Saint Patrick? Did he really banish all the snakes from Irel...

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 03:00:30 GMT

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Marcus Junius Brutus is best known as one of the conspirators against Julius Caesar, but there's so ...

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 03:00:18 GMT

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Helen of Troy, the face that launched a thousand ships - but is there more to her than a beautiful f...

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 03:00:17 GMT

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March 15th 44BC is perhaps the most notorious date in all of ancient history. On that fateful day, t...

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 03:00:02 GMT

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It's not often we cover current affairs on The Ancients (the clue is in the name), but in light of P...

Sun, 27 Feb 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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Famous throughout antiquity, yet retold only in fragments today - who is Sappho? Her poetry ins...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 03:00:17 GMT

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Discovered by local farmers in 1974, the Terracotta Army is one of the most astounding archaeologica...

Sun, 20 Feb 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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It's often thought that the ancient Greeks were devout in tradition, strict in their ways and belief...

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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Indigenous Australians have lived on the vast continent of Australia for thousands of years - but ho...

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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St. Valentine of Rome, patron saint of beekeepers and epilepsy, among many other things. But who exa...

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex was first constructed just three decades after the empire’s...

Sun, 06 Feb 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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London is today one of the greatest cities in the world, and the story of its origins is fittingly s...

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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Imagine you are a traveller sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You woul...

Sun, 30 Jan 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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It’s here! Today is the publication date of Tristan’s first book, Alexander’s Successors ...

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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Tens of thousands of clay tablets containing texts written in the ancient Cuneiform script of the As...

Sun, 23 Jan 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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In this second part of Tristan’s explainer, he takes us right into the heart of the battle dubbed ...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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In January 330 BC, Alexander the Great faced one of his most difficult challenges to date. A small P...

Sun, 16 Jan 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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16 January 27 BC is a date sometimes associated with the beginning of the Roman Empire. It was on th...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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At its height, the Seleucid Empire stretched from Thrace (modern day Bulgaria) to the Indus River Va...

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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Spinning held an important place in ancient society, and no, we're not talking about ancient exercis...

Thu, 06 Jan 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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It’s a macabre topic to discuss, but also one that has fascinated people for generations. So what ...

Sun, 02 Jan 2022 03:00:00 GMT

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They’ve both been described as the greatest military commander in the ancient world, but who reall...

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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We’re finishing off 2021 with what is perhaps Julius Caesar’s greatest legacy. It’s not a mili...

Sun, 26 Dec 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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For the first 4 centuries AD/CE, the ancient Greek novel was the most popular literary form in the R...

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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It’s fair to say that winter battles weren’t commonplace in the ancient Mediterranean world. The...

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 03:00:56 GMT

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Thanks largely to his feature in the Gospel of Matthew, King Herod ‘the Great’ of Judaea is one ...

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 04:00:00 GMT

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Contrary to popular belief, parties in Ancient Rome were not all depraved wine-fuelled orgies. In fa...

Sun, 12 Dec 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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What the Book of Genesis is to the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, songlines are to In...

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Frederick the Great, Marie Antoinette and Oscar Wilde. Each of them have talked about, or been talke...

Sun, 05 Dec 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Today we’re talking all about science, Stonehenge and what we know about a massive migration into ...

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Today we’re going back to the beginning – no Romans, Celts, Egyptians or Macedonians in sight. W...

Sun, 28 Nov 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Situated roughly one mile south of Hadrian’s Wall is one of the great jewels of Roman and early me...

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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It is one of the most remote ancient sites in the world. Situated on the isolated Micronesian island...

Sun, 21 Nov 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Alexander the Great and Caracalla. One often considered among the most successful military commander...

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Minoan Crete has kept people captivated for millennia, appearing in countless modern cultural practi...

Sun, 14 Nov 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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From Gladiator to Rome Total War to I, Claudius, today the Cohortēs praetōriae are one of the most...

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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For decades the discovery of Ai Khanum, ‘the City of Lady Moon’, in Eastern Afghanistan has fasc...

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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For thousands of years indigenous Australians, the longest living culture on Earth, have been fascin...

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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To align with the COP26 conference in Glasgow, this episode features legendary Roman Britain archaeo...

Sun, 31 Oct 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Was Ancient Rome truly as sexually liberated as we think? How did the Greeks feel about nude statues...

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Following two assassinations and two executions, the title of Roman Emperor fell to Alexander Severu...

Sun, 24 Oct 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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To fight against the Roman empire and then make an alliance with them took a certain courage and ten...

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Gold and horses! 2,500 years ago, in the area of the Great Steppe that is now Eastern Kazakhstan, an...

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Often up there in the upper echelons of most articles listing Rome's worst emperors, it's fair ...

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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A theatre, a gymnasium and houses with colonnaded courtyards: these are the hallmarks of an Anc...

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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In October 331 BC, one of the most important battles of world history occurred on the plain of Gauga...

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Very few figures in history are recognizable from their silhouettes, but included in this small grou...

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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In his lifetime King Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, forged one of th...

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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This week our understanding of when humans first inhabited the North American continent has been tur...

Sun, 26 Sep 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Legendary leaders and notorious battles, we imagine the sound of clinking armour. But what did the R...

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 02:00:45 GMT

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It’s werewolf time on the Ancients! In this episode Exeter University’s Professor Daniel Ogden h...

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s death, his empire became the subject of a series of tita...

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Historian and author Dr. Emma Southon returns to the Ancients to shine a light on the life - and mur...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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With a history stretching back thousands of years, it’s about time that the Ancients started looki...

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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The world is constantly changing, and so has the perception of civilisation, but what exactly are th...

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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We’ve covered bloody battles, we’ve covered stunning cities, we’ve covered civilisations far a...

Sun, 05 Sep 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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In 83/84 AD a battle was fought somewhere in Scotland between the Roman forces of Gnaeus Julius Agri...

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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When one mentions Roman military installations you would be forgiven for instantly thinking of their...

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Nan Madol. It is one of the most awesome, enigmatic and unique ancient sites in the World, and yet m...

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Among the rulers of Ancient Egypt, Cleopatra VII has long held a place in legend, her story having b...

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Today it is the second largest city in France. But Marseilles is also the country’s oldest city. F...

Sun, 22 Aug 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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He was one of the greatest enemies the Romans ever faced. An excellent general and a larger-than-lif...

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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It is the one possible case of urbanisation in Britain prior to the arrival of the Romans, and that ...

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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He was one of the greatest rebels of Rome from the 1st century AD, but his name is not one you might...

Sun, 15 Aug 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Persepolis is arguably the most famous ancient site associated with the Achaemenid Persian Empire, b...

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Among Pompeii’s great wealth of surviving artefacts is one with a rich globe trotting history that...

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Love them or loathe them, the Roman emperors were some of the most influential figures in history. I...

Sun, 08 Aug 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Often found high on the list of Rome’s worst emperors, the short reign of the teenager Elegabalus ...

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Cleopatra. Hers is one of the most famous names that endures from antiquity. The victor of a civil w...

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Mention the word gladiator and you would be forgiven for instantly thinking of the 2000 namesake epi...

Sun, 01 Aug 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Alexander the Great is one of the most famous generals and empire builders in history, but the story...

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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The Theban Sacred Band was one of the greatest military corps of Ancient Greece, thriving from the c...

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 02:00:06 GMT

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In the mid-20th century French archaeologists came across a remarkable collection of ancient items f...

Sun, 25 Jul 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Often known as ‘Britain’s first town’, Colchester is a city rich in ancient history and on 24 ...

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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A legendary city-state in Ancient Greece, we associate Sparta with fierce warriors in battle. But wh...

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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It’s a crossover with Jaws and Open Water that we never expected, but a 3,000 year old corpse has ...

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 23:00:00 GMT

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It was one of the most powerful empires in history, leaving marks and remnants across the globe, but...

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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What could be more terrifying than an army racing towards you? An army on chariots? What if those ch...

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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480 BC is a year widely-celebrated in Greek history. When Leonidas' Spartan core and their Hellenic ...

Sun, 11 Jul 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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On the day of the Euro 2020 final, we’re talking England versus Italy…Ancients style (well, sort...

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Bagram, also known as Begram, has been in the news a lot recently. Over the past couple of days, the...

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Dividing Sicily from Italy, the Strait of Messina is a small stretch of water with an incredible his...

Sun, 04 Jul 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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It is one of the most remarkable ancient sites in the World. Situated east of the Zagros Mountains i...

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 23:00:00 GMT

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In the long tradition of categorising famous wives as the good or the bad, Nero’s partners are no ...

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Sparta. Situated in the southern Peloponnese, this ancient Hellenic city-state has become ingrained ...

Sun, 27 Jun 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Situated roughly two miles south of Hadrian's Wall in the heart of the Northumberland countryside, V...

Wed, 23 Jun 2021 23:00:00 GMT

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An incredibly popular goddess, characterised in statues of her by a vest of bee hives, or are they b...

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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The novel, and in particular the romance genre, is at the heart of a billion dollar industry, but wh...

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Stretching out from the north west of France, Brittany has long been as identifiable with the Atlant...

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Prehistoric animal carvings, thought to be up to 5,000 years old, have been discovered in Scotland f...

Sun, 13 Jun 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Situated on the western coast of the Red Sea in antiquity were a series of thriving seaports, bringi...

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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In popular culture, Nero is thought of as the Emperor who played the fiddle as Rome burned to the gr...

Sun, 06 Jun 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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How truthful are modern depictions of ancient chariots? In this second episode, Mike Loades explores...

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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From creation stories to voyager journeys, mythology and oral history are often key to our identitie...

Sun, 30 May 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Taxis to the front line or ancient tanks? Through archaeological remains and ancient depictions, we ...

Wed, 26 May 2021 23:00:00 GMT

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If there had been a different outcome to the Battle of Granicus, we might never have heard about Ale...

Sat, 22 May 2021 23:00:00 GMT

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Despite sporadic food sources and the dangers of the deep sea, the remote islands of the Pacific Oce...

Wed, 19 May 2021 23:00:00 GMT

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The legend of King Arthur has been reworked many times, but is there any historical truth behind the...

Sun, 16 May 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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For hundreds of years in antiquity, the sanctuary at Olympia was one of the most important religious...

Thu, 13 May 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Situated north of the Hindu Kush and south of the Oxus (Amu Darya) River, the history of the ancient...

Tue, 11 May 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Forget the Games, ancient Olympia’s importance stretched much further than simply being the birthp...

Sun, 09 May 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Traditionally believed to be ‘windows to the soul’, the health of eyes in the Roman Empire could...

Thu, 06 May 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Occupied since around 3000 BC, the Ancient city of Corinth is not unique in its transition from a Pa...

Sun, 02 May 2021 08:36:34 GMT

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The Huns! The name of this ancient people triggers a multiplicity of responses and evokes a number o...

Sun, 02 May 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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The most famous sporting event in the world is upon us, so it's only right that we consider what do ...

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Caesar Octavian, Mark Antony, Decimus Brutus and Cicero: the Battle of Mutina, April 43 BC, was a cl...

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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We know all about the battles of the Roman Empire: the opposing sides, their weapons and incentives....

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Here on The Ancients, we think that you will love Leonardo, the official podcast accompanying the mu...

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Ever since its occurence in 480 BC, the Battle of Thermopylae has been the stuff of legend. Echoes o...

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Described as one of the most complete cavalry forts that survives in Britain, Chesters Roman Fort is...

Sun, 11 Apr 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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A plague which affects people from across society, mass exodus from city centres and numerous opinio...

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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The Persepolis Fortification Tablets / Texts are the who’s who of the Ancient Achaemenid Empire, a...

Sun, 04 Apr 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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According to the Gospels, Jesus died and was removed from the cross on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath...

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Between the 3rd century BC and the 1st century AD, the Xiongnu inhabited the area surrounding Mongol...

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 02:00:00 GMT

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Without recordings, and with notation and instruments long forgotten, how can we possibly know what ...

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Cicero is often considered to be one of the greatest orators of Ancient Rome. But how did he reach p...

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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The Iceni warrior who led a revolt against the Roman Empire around 60 AD often stands alone in our m...

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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A city of caves, temples and tombs, Petra gains its nickname from the pink sandstone from which it w...

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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In 44 BC, the Ides of March took on a new significance. Previously observed as the first full moon o...

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Kara Cooney has been studying 6 of the remarkable female pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. In this episode ...

Sun, 07 Mar 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Boudica has become a hero of British folklore. Her leadership of the Iceni in an uprising against th...

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Popular discussions of human history are punctuated with conflict, but when did warfare begin? To di...

Sun, 28 Feb 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Cheddar Man is the oldest almost complete skeleton of a Homo sapien ever found in Britain and, for t...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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The assumption had once been that they were nomads until the Romans came. But more recent archaeolog...

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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In 197 AD, the armies of Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus met at Lugdunum, on the site of prese...

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Palmyra features in headlines today as a casualty of IS destruction, but during its heyday it was a ...

Sun, 14 Feb 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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In 73 AD, 967 Jewish rebels against the Romans committed mass suicide atop the Masada Fortress. Or d...

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Rome. The Eternal City. One of the most recognisable names that many associate with the Ancient Medi...

Sun, 07 Feb 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Dramatically placed on a plateau with drops of 400m to the east and 90m to the west, Masada translat...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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The four components of the Ancient Indian battlefield: infantry, cavalry, chariots … and elephants...

Sun, 31 Jan 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Roughly two miles south of Hadrian’s Wall lie the remains of Roman Corbridge, the northernmost tow...

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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From Northern Britain to the Near East, Roman tombstones have been uncovered on various far flung fr...

Sun, 24 Jan 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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The legions of Rome were the nucleus of Rome’s military might for centuries. From campaigning in n...

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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For centuries, arguably the greatest external threat the Roman Empire faced came from the East. From...

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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It’s a paradox for the ages, breaking news about people who lived and died thousands of years ago....

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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Her legend afforded her a place alongside Eve, Cleopatra and Venus, to name just a few of the famous...

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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The deep blue sea is the subject of speculation to this day but, in this episode, we have access to ...

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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It’s 218 BC, and Hannibal has made the mammoth journey across the Alps en route to Italy, accompan...

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 03:00:00 GMT

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The length of time between the rule of Cleopatra and the erection of the Pyramids is the same as tha...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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In the 8th and 7th centuries BC, Ancient Egypt was ruled by an extraordinary dynasty. This...

Sun, 27 Dec 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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Hatshepsut – whose name means “foremost of noblewomen” – was an exceptional figure in the hi...

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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The clichéd Christmas: white snow, hot fires, mulled wine and a feast. This might not be the case w...

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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In this episode from the History Hit archive, Dan talks to Kevin Butcher about the Roman festival of...

Sun, 20 Dec 2020 03:00:28 GMT

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In 218 BCE, Hannibal Barca's Carthaginian army, accompanied by horses and elephants, completed one o...

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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From 478 BCE until 404 BCE, a collection of Greek city-states were united under the leadership of At...

Sun, 13 Dec 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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Greco-Roman historians including Herodotus, Tacitus and Pliny the Elder would have us believe that t...

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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Brochs. Early archaeologists believed that they must have been built by the Danish, that the indigen...

Sun, 06 Dec 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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It’s probably the most famous book in the world, and it’s also essentially the only literary sou...

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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‘I’m Spartacus!’ In the field of epic film making, the 1960 historical drama ‘Spartacus’, ...

Sun, 29 Nov 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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When we think of Pompeii, we remember the city which became frozen in time after a natural catastrop...

Thu, 26 Nov 2020 17:15:00 GMT

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Pompeii is back in the news. An extraordinary new, touching discovery, found during the Great Pompei...

Sun, 22 Nov 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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The House of the Faun in Pompeii is known for being one of the largest and most impressive private r...

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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An ancient town, buried and preserved beneath volcanic ash, Pompeii is a gift to archaeologists and ...

Sun, 15 Nov 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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Its been used for nationalist propaganda across the ages and its just been dramatised for Netflix, b...

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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The Romans, an ancient conquering civilisation with an empire that spread from Europe across the Bal...

Sun, 08 Nov 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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Alexander, an Ancient Greek king and a victorious conqueror. No, not that one, not Alexander the Gre...

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:30:00 GMT

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Alexander the Great. One of the most recognisable names in history. In his short lifetime he conquer...

Sun, 01 Nov 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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If you're looking for a raunchy Roman poet, look no further than Catullus. Born into one of the most...

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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At its height the Kingdom of Aksum was considered one of the four great powers of the Ancient World....

Sun, 25 Oct 2020 03:00:00 GMT

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It is one of the most extraordinary ancient archaeological sites in Southeast Asia, albeit one that ...

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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In October 42 BC the Roman Republic committed suicide. Near the town of Philippi in northern Greece ...

Sun, 18 Oct 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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The Big Three. In antiquity it could mean a whole host of different things, the triumvirate of Caesa...

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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69 AD was a tumultuous year in Roman history. 4 Romans assumed the title of emperor; only one remain...

Sun, 11 Oct 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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Gareth Sampson, author of Defeat of Rome in the East: Crassus, the Parthians, and the Disastrou...

Thu, 08 Oct 2020 02:00:53 GMT

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Dan Snow talks to Simon Elliott about Septimius Severus, the first Hammer of the Scots, about his No...

Sun, 04 Oct 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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The Emperor Nero is one of antiquity's most infamous figures, having a particularly hostile relation...

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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There are few men in Roman history that can claim to have been as influential as Marcus Agrippa. The...

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:00:43 GMT

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The ancient Polynesians remain the greatest seafarers in history. Already by the time of the legenda...

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:00:00 GMT

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We've had the Battle of Thermopylae with the brilliant Paul Cartledge; we've had the Battle of Artem...

Sun, 20 Sep 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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The Emperor Constantine I, better known as Constantine the Great, is one of the most significant emp...

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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This week's episode from the History Hit archive features the brilliant Tom Holland telling the myth...

Sun, 13 Sep 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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Conqueror. Destroyer. Convert. Legendary king. It's fair to say that Alexander the Great's relations...

Fri, 11 Sep 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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Another one from the History Hit archive! The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanu...

Sun, 06 Sep 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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Priestesses of Vesta, Goddess of hearth, home and family, the College of Vestal Virgins were Rome’...

Fri, 04 Sep 2020 02:00:47 GMT

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Time for a delve into the History Hit ancient history archives! In this podcast Dan Snow sits down w...

Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:00:00 GMT

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Along the banks of the River Nile, directly south of ancient Egypt and hundreds of miles away from t...

Sun, 23 Aug 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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Around this time 2,499 years ago the famous Battle of Thermopylae was raging. But it is important to...

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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2,499 years ago the Persian 'Great King' Xerxes launched history's largest amphibious invasion of Eu...

Sun, 16 Aug 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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Move over Hannibal. More over Carthage. This podcast is all about a much BIGGER elephant power in an...

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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In 281/280 BC, the Hellenistic King Pyrrhus ventured to southern Italy to aid the Italiote-Greek cit...

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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From the 2000 historical blockbuster 'Gladiator' to the Total War series, brutal hand to hand warfar...

Sun, 02 Aug 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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From Cornwall to Orkney, stone circles are scattered throughout the length and breadth of the Britis...

Sun, 26 Jul 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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Agrippina the Younger (AD 15 - 59) was one of the most prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty...

Sun, 19 Jul 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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The horse archer was one of the most feared warriors of antiquity. Triumphing mobility and fluidity,...

Sun, 12 Jul 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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In c.142 AD the Emperor Antoninus Pius ordered the construction of a new wall in Northern Britain. S...

Sun, 05 Jul 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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Housesteads Roman Fort is one of the great, surviving treasures of Roman Britain. Once an auxiliary ...

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 02:00:00 GMT

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The origins of biological and chemical warfare stretch far back; modern technology has not brought a...

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 18:00:27 GMT

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In the late 4th century and early 5th centuries two massive largely-Germanic confederations arrived ...

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:00:00 GMT

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Plague in the ancient world was nothing unusual. Bouts of illness were common occurrences, but we do...