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Excavating a Scythian Royal Burial Mound: Interview with Dr. Gino Caspari
Season 5 Episode 109
Dr. Gino Caspari returns to discuss the extraordinary finds at his most recent excavation of an early (maybe the earliest) Scythian royal burial moun…
1 year, 9 months ago
What If: Alexander the Great had Died at the Granicus River?
Season 5 Episode 108
How would history look different if Alexander the Great had died in 334 BC? Would Macedonia still have conquered most of Asia?
Patrick's book is now a…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Birth of the Carthaginian Empire
Season 5 Episode 107
Carthage spent most of the fifth century BC building up its economy, but in the aftermath of the disastrous Athenian expedition to Sicily, the Cartha…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Fall of the Carolingian Empire: Interview with Dr. David Perry
Season 5 Episode 106
Much of what we take for granted about the European Middle Ages was a product of the Carolingian dynasty, particularly its most notable member, Charl…
1 year, 9 months ago
The End of the Age of the Successors
Season 5 Episode 105
By the 280s BC, only a few of the men who had ridden the length and breadth of Asia with Alexander were still alive, and the world they had spent dec…
1 year, 10 months ago
Being a Soldier During the Thirty Years War: Interview with Dr. Lucian Staiano-Daniels
Season 5 Episode 104
What was it like to be a soldier during the Thirty Years War? I spoke with Dr. Lucian Staiano-Daniels, author of the upcoming book The War People: A …
1 year, 10 months ago
The Rise of the Hellenistic World
Season 5 Episode 103
Antigonus the One-Eyed came closer than almost any other figure in the post-Alexander world to recreating the dead king's empire, but his success aro…
1 year, 10 months ago
Ancient DNA and the Iron Age Mediterranean: Interview with Dr. Hannah Moots
Season 5 Episode 102
Ancient DNA has transformed our understanding of the more distant reaches of the human past, but what can it tell us about more recent ages of histor…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Foundation of the Hellenistic Kingdoms
Season 5 Episode 101
As the dust began to settle after Alexander's death, the possibility of one of his relatives truly ruling the dead king's empire grew smaller and sma…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Successors of Alexander the Great
Season 5 Episode 100
With mountains of treasure, huge armies, and ambitions that no amount of conquest could ever slake, Alexander's Successors spent the next 40 years af…
1 year, 11 months ago