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A podcast for all ancient history fans! The Ancients is dedicated to discussing our distant past. Featuring interviews with historians and archaeologists, each episode covers a specific theme from antiquity. From Neolithic Britain to the Fall of Rome. Hosted by Tristan Hughes.
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- The Year of Five Emperors · 47 dk · Bölüm 724How do you celebrate the New Year in ancient Rome? With an assassination and a bloody free-for-all for the imperial throne, of course. Following the murder of the gladiator…
- Britain's First Homo Sapiens · 53 dk · Bölüm 722What was it like to share Britain with Neanderthals and cave hyenas 40,000 years ago? Tristan Hughes ventures deep underground to Kents Cavern, a glittering labyrinth…
- The Mycenaeans: Was Agamemnon Real? · 1 sa 7 dk · Bölüm 721They built the great fortresses of the Bronze Age, developed a mysterious writing system and, according to Homer, led the Greek assault on Troy. But how much of the legend is…
- Easter Island · 1 sa 4 dk · Bölüm 720How do you make a giant stone statue walk? On one of the most isolated islands on Earth, the people of Rapa Nui carved AND moved the extraordinary Moai, colossal faces hewn from…
- Bronze Age Syria: Cradle of Cities · 1 sa 3 dk · Bölüm 719Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Hittites usually dominate the story of the Bronze Age. But Syria was home to some of the region's most powerful cities and kingdoms and helped forge…
- Origins of Constantinople · 59 dk · Bölüm 717Why did Emperor Constantine abandon Rome to build a spectacular new capital from scratch? In the year 312 a bloody civil war and a miraculous heavenly vision changed the Roman…
- The Ninth Legion: Did They Disappear? · 1 sa 9 dk · Bölüm 716It's one of history’s most compelling cold cases. What happened to the Ninth Legion, a crack unit of 5,000 Roman soldiers who vanished from the historical record without a trace?…
- Viking Origins: The Nordic Iron Age · 1 sa 7 dk · Bölüm 715Two thousand years ago, centuries before the Vikings, there was another Scandinavia. An Iron Age world. Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen to uncover the deep…
- Caratacus: King of the Britons · 1 sa 6 dk · Bölüm 714Before Boudicca, another British leader brought the Roman war machine to a grinding halt. Meet Caratacus; the cunning King of the Britons who spent seven years outmaneuvering the…
- Ancient Antarctica · 57 dk · Bölüm 712The frozen continent of Antarctica was once a land of forests, rivers and thriving ecosystems. And millions of years before humans ever existed it was home to a whole host of…
- Prehistoric Penguins · 41 dk · Bölüm 711When the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, one remarkable avian survivor traded the skies for the sea. Tristan Hughes and paleontologist Dr Steve Brusatte explore how prehistoric…
- Life and Death in Ancient Babylon · 55 dk · Bölüm 710Babylon was one of the greatest cities of the ancient world. But what was life really like for the people who lived there? Behind its magnificent temples and royal palaces lay a…
- The Gospels: Are They Historical? · 1 sa 3 dk · Bölüm 709How much can we really know about the historical Jesus? The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John have shaped Christianity for nearly 2,000 years, but they were written decades…
- Maya Hieroglyphs Decoded · 49 dk · Bölüm 707Forget everything you thought you knew about the ancient Maya. Cracking their mysterious hieroglyphs didn't just reveal boring calendars, it exposed a cutthroat, Game of…
- Human Sacrifice in Ancient Britain · 1 sa 1 dk · Bölüm 706WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of graphic violence from the start. When we picture human sacrifice in ancient Britain, the iconic, flaming Wicker Man often comes to…
- Ice Age America: The Clovis Culture · 58 dk · Bölüm 705Before the mammoths disappeared, people hunted them across Ice Age America. Armed with distinctive stone spear points, the mysterious Clovis culture left behind traces of a world…
- The First Punic War · 1 sa 1 dk · Bölüm 704How did the Romans ambush a massive Carthaginian fleet from behind a Sicilian island to win one of history's fiercest sea battles? For over 20 years, Rome and Carthage fought a…
- Iron Age Ireland · 53 dk · Bölüm 702How much of Iron Age Ireland is myth, and how much is archaeological reality? At the monumental Hill of Tara, sacred kings ruled over a landscape steeped in ancient ritual and…
- Human Origins: Did We Begin in Africa? · 59 dk · Bölüm 701The story of human origins is often imagined as a simple journey from Africa, but is the truth actually much messier? Tristan Hughes and leading palaeoanthropologist Prof. Chris…
- Egypt's Lost Cities · 60 dk · Bölüm 700What happens when an entire city disappears? Beneath the sands and wetlands of Egypt lie the remains of forgotten cities that once stood at the heart of one of the ancient…
- Roman Emperor Augustus and His Trusted General · 57 dk · Bölüm 699Augustus was Rome's first Emperor. But who made his empire possible? Behind the throne stood Marcus Agrippa, the brilliant general whose victories secured the Roman world yet…
- The Vandals · 50 dk · Bölüm 697The Vandals have gone down in history as the barbarians who helped bring down the Western Roman Empire. Their name became synonymous with violence and destruction, but who were…
- Terror Birds · 45 dk · Bölüm 696What kind of predator needs no teeth to terrify its prey? The terror birds were enormous flightless hunters that ruled South America for millions of years, standing metres tall…
- The Maya Ballgame · 1 sa 7 dk · Bölüm 695A rubber ball. A stone court. And a sport where the stakes could be life and death. For more than 2,000 years, Mesoamerican peoples played a remarkable ballgame that became far…
- How Slavery Built the Roman Empire · 1 sa 7 dk · Bölüm 694Was the Roman Empire really made by conquest? Or was it powered by something much darker? For centuries, millions of enslaved people sacrificed their lives and their labour on…
- Romulus & Remus · 60 dk · Bölüm 692The story of Romulus and Remus is one of the most famous myths from the ancient world. But the Romans believed the founding of their city stretched far beyond the tale of the…
- Shapur I: Rome's Greatest Enemy? · 58 dk · Bölüm 691Few rulers humbled Rome quite like Shapur I. A King of Kings, he rebuilt the Sasanian Persian Empire, defeated Roman armies and captured Emperor Valerian in one of antiquity's…
- Scotland's First Warriors · 56 dk · Bölüm 690Three thousand years ago, prehistoric Scotland was a landscape of rival communities, raids and warfare. Bands of warriors fought for power and territory leaving behind…
- The Catiline Conspiracy · 1 sa 4 dk · Bölüm 689In 63 BC, Rome faced a conspiracy that threatened to tear the Roman Republic apart. At its centre stood two figures: Marcus Tullius Cicero, the grand old orator of Rome and…
- Alexander the Great's Mad Scientist · 1 sa 12 dk · Bölüm 687WARNING: graphic descriptions of violence and warfare Meet Diades, Alexander the Great’s overlooked military engineer, the man who made the impossible siege of Tyre happen…
- Hollywood’s Odyssey: The Historians' Verdict · 1 sa 10 dk · Bölüm 686Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film Odyssey brings Homer’s epic roaring back to life and Tristan Hughes and Dr. Emily Hauser are here to unpack every storm, monster and…
- The First New Zealanders · 57 dk · Bölüm 685What if the first New Zealanders crossed an ocean, landed in a brand-new world, and built a whole society in just a few generations? Tristan Hughes and Dr Richard Walter tell the…
- Odyssey | Sea of Monsters & Slaughter of the Suitors · 1 sa 8 dk · Bölüm 684When Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, his homecoming turns into a ruthless reckoning. Tristan Hughes and Dr. Emily Hauser dive into the shocking climax of Homer’s Odyssey…
- Caral: Oldest City in the Americas? · 58 dk · Bölüm 682Long before the age of the Inca and Maya, a remarkable city once flourished on the coast of modern Peru. Founded more than five thousand years ago, the sacred city of Caral is…
- Odyssey | Cyclops, Circe and Calypso · 1 sa 4 dk · Bölüm 681What if the world’s most famous homecoming was really a nightmare of monsters, gods, and one very stubborn king trying to get back to Ithaca? In our new series Tristan Hughes…
- Egypt's Book of the Dead · 51 dk · Bölüm 680For over a thousand years, the Book of the Dead guided ancient Egyptians through the afterlife. Filled with powerful spells these remarkable texts were designed to help the dead…
- The Trojan War · 1 sa 9 dk · Bölüm 679The story of Achilles, Odysseus and the siege of Troy has captivated audiences for millennia, but behind the legends lies a deeper mystery. Was this epic war a myth, a memory of…
- The Flood Myth · 56 dk · Bölüm 677Thousands of years before the story of Noah and the Ark, people in ancient Mesopotamia were already telling tales of a devastating divine flood. Written into the Epic of…
- Delphi: Centre of the Ancient World · 55 dk · Bölüm 676For 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…
- Stonehenge with Ken Follett · 46 dk · Bölüm 675What 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…
- The Library of Alexandria · 43 dk · Bölüm 674The 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…
- Boudica and the Iceni · 57 dk · Bölüm 672In 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…
- The Cambrian Explosion: When Life Began? · 1 sa 0 dk · Bölüm 671538 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…
- The Pharisees · 47 dk · Bölüm 670The 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…
- The Rosetta Stone · 45 dk · Bölüm 669In 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…
- Neanderthal Art · 1 sa 8 dk · Bölüm 668Fifty 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…
- Spartacus · 1 sa 16 dk · Bölüm 667In 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…
- The Fall of Hadrian's Wall · 1 sa 15 dk · Bölüm 666When 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…
- Iron Age Britain · 60 dk · Bölüm 665What 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…
- Prehistoric Greenland · 1 sa 8 dk · Bölüm 663What 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…
