Podcast · History

The Ancients

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The Rosetta Stone
Jun 7, 2026 ·44:35
Neanderthal Art
Jun 4, 2026 ·1:08:33
Spartacus
May 31, 2026 ·1:16:10
The Fall of Hadrian's Wall
May 28, 2026 ·1:15:02
Iron Age Britain
May 24, 2026 ·59:37
Prehistoric Greenland
May 21, 2026 ·1:08:05
The Other Humans: Why We Survived?
May 17, 2026 ·42:16
What If Alexander Fought Rome?
May 14, 2026 ·1:19:50
The Real Armageddon
May 10, 2026 ·58:40
Ancient China: The Warring States
May 7, 2026 ·59:45
The Prehistoric Plague
May 3, 2026 ·48:53
The Persian Gulf
Apr 30, 2026 ·58:41
The Last Days of Pompeii
Apr 26, 2026 ·1:06:26
The First Tools
Apr 23, 2026 ·46:00
Athens vs Persia: The Legend of Themistocles
Apr 19, 2026 ·54:15
The Hittites
Apr 16, 2026 ·58:36
Homo Sapiens vs Neanderthals
Apr 12, 2026 ·59:23
The Romans and China
Apr 9, 2026 ·58:38
Judas Iscariot
Apr 5, 2026 ·56:29
Britain's First Dog
Apr 2, 2026 ·49:53
The Roman Centurion
Mar 29, 2026 ·1:00:06
The Delian League: Ancient NATO?
Mar 26, 2026 ·1:05:58
Leonidas: King of Sparta, Hero of Thermopylae
Mar 22, 2026 ·1:03:44
What if the Ides of March Failed?
Mar 19, 2026 ·1:03:25
Herodotus: The Father of History
Mar 15, 2026 ·48:14
The Phoenicians
Mar 12, 2026 ·1:03:05
Bronze Age Star Map: The Nebra Sky Disk
Mar 8, 2026 ·50:40
The Age of Dinosaurs with Henry Gee
Mar 5, 2026 ·1:17:28
Ramesses the Great: Death of a Dynasty
Mar 1, 2026 ·56:33
Alexander the Great | Lord of Asia
Feb 26, 2026 ·1:16:46
The House of Ramesses II: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh?
Feb 22, 2026 ·58:29
The Fall of Persia | Alexander the Great
Feb 19, 2026 ·1:13:44
The Skulls of Jericho
Feb 15, 2026 ·53:53
The Invasion of Persia | Alexander the Great
Feb 12, 2026 ·1:04:55
How to Write Cuneiform with Dr. Irving Finkel
Feb 8, 2026 ·1:00:21
Alexander the Great | Rise to Power
Feb 5, 2026 ·1:24:13
Adam and Eve
Feb 1, 2026 ·59:05
The First Popes
Jan 29, 2026 ·56:09
Xerxes the Great
Jan 25, 2026 ·55:39
The Origins of Rome's Empire
Jan 22, 2026 ·58:34
The First Arabians
Jan 18, 2026 ·50:58
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall
Jan 15, 2026 ·1:10:35
Medea: Maligned Sorceress or Heartless Murderer?
Jan 11, 2026 ·52:36
Fall of Sparta
Jan 8, 2026 ·1:14:04
Rise of Christianity
Jan 4, 2026 ·1:07:02
The First Life on Earth
Jan 1, 2026 ·1:22:19
The Ice Age
Dec 28, 2025 ·32:24
The Minoan Labyrinth
Dec 25, 2025 ·42:05
Emperor Diocletian and the Great Persecution
Dec 21, 2025 ·57:51
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy
Dec 18, 2025 ·55:17

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