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The Ancients The Ancients History Hit Erin's Isle podcast Erin's Isle podcast Erin Meehan Breen The Flipside with Monika The Flipside with Monika The Flipside with Monika CONSPIRACY 101 CONSPIRACY 101 Daniel Lucas / Bob LeMent The Bulwark The Bulwark The Bulwark The Conquistadors: Exploration, Greed, and Destruction — Fexingo History The Conquistadors: Exploration, Greed, and Destruction — Fexingo History Fexingo גדי טאוב: שומר סף גדי טאוב: שומר סף ד"ר גדי טאוב The Blue Collar Scholar The Blue Collar Scholar Will Reitz Arroe Collins View From The Writing Instrument Arroe Collins View From The Writing Instrument Arroe Collins Henry läser Wikipedia Henry läser Wikipedia Acast Au cœur des archives Au cœur des archives Europe 1 La Rosa de los Vientos La Rosa de los Vientos OndaCero Radio Retropolis Radio Retropolis Radio Retropolis Timeline, l'Histoire en Podcast Timeline, l'Histoire en Podcast Richard Fremder When Doves Podcast: Prince--Album by Album & Song by Song When Doves Podcast: Prince--Album by Album & Song by Song Jared/Ed Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts Spoiler Sleepover Spoiler Sleepover Jason Michael and Rob Michigan Minute Michigan Minute WKAR Public Media Adam's Corner Adam's Corner Adam Long History Shorts History Shorts History Shorts Network Best of the US Best of the US Mechanical Music Radio History's A Disaster History's A Disaster Andrew Cool Zone Media Book Club Cool Zone Media Book Club Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts On This Day in Working Class History On This Day in Working Class History Working Class History עושים תנ"ך עם יותם שטיינמן Osim Tanach עושים תנ"ך עם יותם שטיינמן Osim Tanach רשת עושים היסטוריה Disturbing History Disturbing History Disturbing History-True Stories This Day in History This Day in History The HISTORY Channel Daniel Boone - John C.S. Abbott Daniel Boone - John C.S. Abbott John C.S. Abbott The Strange History Podcast The Strange History Podcast Strange History Der unerklärliche Podcast Der unerklärliche Podcast Mr. & Mrs. Fröhlich Founders Founders David Senra Harold's Old Time Radio Harold's Old Time Radio Harolds Old Time Radio Morning Cup of Murder Morning Cup of Murder Morning Cup of Murder Zero Limits Podcast Zero Limits Podcast Matty Morris Past Present Future Past Present Future David Runciman The Story of Writing The Story of Writing Jon Brown Sword and Scale Sword and Scale Sword and Scale
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The Ancients

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Delphi: Centre of the Ancient World

June 27, 2026 9:00pm 55 min

For more than a thousand years, Delphi was considered a cultural centre of the ancient world. Every year a throng of pilgrims climbed the slopes of Mount Parnassus to seek the words of Apollo through the famous Oracle of...

Stonehenge with Ken Follett

June 24, 2026 9:00pm 46 min

What if the secrets of Stonehenge lie not just in the stones, but in the people who hauled them there?Tristan Hughes sits down with best-selling novelist Ken Follett to uncover and imagine the lives of the Stone Age buil...

The Library of Alexandria

June 20, 2026 9:00pm 42 min

The Library of Alexandria was one of the most important and most celebrated buildings of the ancient Mediterranean. It was a great hub of learning and literature and made Alexandria one of the ancient world’s foremost ce...

Boudica and the Iceni

June 17, 2026 9:00pm 56 min

In 60 AD Roman Britain was very nearly brought to the brink. Cities burned, authority crumbled, and for a brief moment one woman challenged the might of the Roman Empire. Her name was Boudica.Today, Tristan Hughes is joi...

The Cambrian Explosion: When Life Began?

June 13, 2026 9:00pm 1:00

538 million years ago, life on Earth changed forever. In an evolutionary burst known as the Cambrian Explosion, complex animals rapidly appeared in the oceans, laying the foundations for almost every major animal group a...

The Pharisees

June 10, 2026 9:00pm 47 min

The Pharisees are one of the most familiar names in the ancient world, but are they also one of the most misunderstood?Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Helen Bond to step back into first-century Judea, where the Pharisees ...

The Rosetta Stone

June 06, 2026 9:00pm 44 min

In July 1799, French soldiers unearthed a stone that would transform our understanding of the ancient world. Discovered in a fort at Rashid, the Rosetta Stone became the key to deciphering Egypt’s long-lost hieroglyphs. ...

Neanderthal Art

June 03, 2026 9:00pm 1:08

Fifty thousand years ago, Neanderthal artists in Ice Age Europe painted symbols and handprints deep inside caves, leaving behind some of the oldest known art on the continent. These discoveries are transforming how we un...

Spartacus

May 30, 2026 9:00pm 1:16

In 73 BC, a gladiator escaped slavery and launched a rebellion that shook the Roman Republic to its core. His name was Spartacus, and his uprising became one of the greatest threats Rome had ever faced from within.Trista...

The Fall of Hadrian's Wall

May 27, 2026 9:00pm 1:15

When the Romans left Britain in the early 5th century AD, Hadrian’s Wall did not simply collapse into ruin. Its forts and ramparts endured, becoming strongholds for the communities who continued to live along this ancien...

Iron Age Britain

May 23, 2026 9:00pm 59 min

What if Iron Age Britain was never a land of barbarians at all, but a world of skilled farmers, powerful women, trade, ritual, and spectacle? Tristan Hughes is joined by Professor Tom Moore to reveal a far richer pre-Rom...

Prehistoric Greenland

May 20, 2026 9:00pm 1:08

What can a frozen island reveal about the people who thrived there for thousands of years? Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr. Asta Mønsted to explore prehistoric Greenland through astonishing archaeology and living mytholog...

The Other Humans: Why We Survived?

May 16, 2026 9:00pm 42 min

For most of human history, we were not alone. Human evolution was shaped by multiple human species living side by side, from Neanderthals in Europe to Denisovans in Asia, before all but one disappeared.Tristan Hughes is ...

What If Alexander Fought Rome?

May 13, 2026 9:00pm 1:19

Rome vs Alexander. It's a counterfactual of suitably epic proportions, fit for movie theatres and sprawling strategy video games. What would've happen had the great Macedonian general not perished in Babylon and advanced...

The Real Armageddon

May 09, 2026 9:00pm 58 min

Armageddon is more than just a biblical prophecy hailing the end of days. It is a real place: Megiddo, an ancient city that for thousands of years stood at the crossroads of empires, trade routes and wars in the ancient ...

Ancient China: The Warring States

May 06, 2026 9:00pm 59 min

How did ancient China plunge into 261 years of chaos, and how did that turmoil forge an empire?Tristan Hughes is joined by Professor Andrew Seth Meyer to explore the Warring States period, from collapsing Zhou power and ...

The Prehistoric Plague

May 02, 2026 9:00pm 48 min

The first ever outbreak of 'plague' - Yersinia Pestis, the most feared disease in human history - was long thought to be the Plague of Justinian in 541 AD. But new studies of ancient DNA have revealed traces of Yesinia P...

The Persian Gulf

April 29, 2026 9:00pm 58 min

Near the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most vital commercial chokepoints, lies an ancient trade route that powered civilisation 4,000 years ago: the Persian Gulf - where goods and ideas flowed between the great ci...

The Last Days of Pompeii

April 25, 2026 9:00pm 1:06

In 79 AD, life in Pompeii unfolded beneath the shadow of a tremoring Mount Vesuvius. Streets bustled, businesses thrived, and merchants built fortunes, unaware disaster was hours away. But what happened when that disaste...

The First Tools

April 22, 2026 9:00pm 46 min

What if the first technology was just a stone?Tristan Hughes and Dr. Emma Finestone, - Curator and the Robert J. and Linnet E. Fritz Endowed Chair of Humans Origins at Cleveland Museum of Natural History - travel back ov...

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