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The Scythian World
Season 5 Episode 49
The Scythians transformed the Eurasian steppe. They built giant burial mounds for their powerful kings, raided and plundered their sedentary neighbor…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Iron Age Steppe and the Emergence of the Scythians
Season 5 Episode 48
For millennia, the Eurasian steppe has been the highway connecting the distant ends of Europe and Asia. But at the beginning of the Iron Age, somethi…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Greco-Persian Wars 4: Plataea and the Aftermath
Season 5 Episode 47
The Persian Wars came to an end in the spring of 479 BC, when the land forces of the allied Greeks met the Persian army in an epic clash at Plataea. …
2 years, 11 months ago
Cutting-Edge Archaeology on the Eurasian Steppe: Gino Caspari on the Scythians
Season 5 Episode 46
In excavating massive Iron Age burial mounds in southern Siberia, Dr. Gino Caspari is doing some of the most innovative archaeology in the world, and…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Greco-Persian Wars, Part 3: Athens in Flames and the Battle of Salamis
Season 5 Episode 45
The Persian invasion of Greece aimed to do one thing above all else: punish Athens for its transgressions against the Great King. After defeating Leo…
3 years ago
The Greco-Persian Wars, Part 2: Xerxes and the Invasion of Greece
Season 5 Episode 44
In 480 BC, the Persian Great King Xerxes descended on mainland Greece with one of the largest armies and navies the world had ever seen. The Persians…
3 years ago
The Greco-Persian Wars, Part 1: The Ionian Revolt to the Battle of Marathon
Season 5 Episode 43
The wars between the Persians and the Greeks have become a cornerstone of the idea of "Western Civilization," a defining moment when Greeks became Gr…
3 years ago
Thinking Like a Persian King: Professor John Hyland on the Persian Perspective of the Greco-Persian Wars
Season 5 Episode 42
When we think about the wars between the Persians and the Greeks, our perspective is quite explicitly that of the Greeks. But how did the Persians vi…
3 years ago
Persia Ascendant
Season 5 Episode 41
While Cyrus the Great built the Persian Empire from the ground up, his successors expanded it until the new state stretched from the Indus Valley of …
3 years ago
Midas, Croesus, and the Lost Kingdoms of Iron Age Anatolia
Season 5 Episode 40
The kingdoms of Iron Age Anatolia survive only as whispers in the archaeological and historical record; others exist through enigmatic references and…
3 years, 1 month ago