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Childhood, Motherhood, and the Body in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Professor Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Season 5 Episode 30
Thanks to cutting-edge tools, archaeologists can study the lives of past people in ways that were never before possible. Professor Katharina Rebay-Sa…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Last Kings of Rome and the Foundation of the Roman Republic
Season 5 Episode 29
What really happened in the last years of the 6th century BC? The Romans believed that this was the time when they overthrew their last king, Tarquin…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Hallstatt Culture, the Celts, and the Rise of the European Iron Age
Season 5 Episode 28
The Hallstatt Culture defines the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age in Continental Europe. It was a time of long-distance conne…
3 years, 3 months ago
Burial Urns, Warrior Chiefs, and the Origins of the Celts
Season 5 Episode 27
While the Mediterranean world was experiencing its Bronze Age Collapse and the beginnings of the Iron Age, continental Europe north of the Alps was i…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Urbanization of Archaic Rome: Interview with Dr. Francesca Fulminante
Season 5 Episode 26
How and why did so many people come to Rome in the Archaic Period, and how did it become a city? Dr. Francesca Fulminante is an expert on the archaeo…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Orientalizing Mediterranean
Season 5 Episode 25
Ideas, goods, and fashions bounced around from place to place in the Iron Age Mediterranean, the most recognizable of which was a particular style of…
3 years, 4 months ago
Iron Age Iberia and the Lost Civilization of the Tartessians
Season 5 Episode 24
Iberia is the hinge between worlds: Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. That was never more true than at the end of the Bronze Age…
3 years, 4 months ago
Building Archaic Rome: Interview with Dr. Andrea Brock
Season 5 Episode 23
What was Rome like before it became one of the biggest cities in the ancient world? How did its early inhabitants adapt to the threat of flooding, an…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Birth of Rome
Season 5 Episode 22
Rome eventually became the heart of one of the largest and most powerful empires the world has ever known, but in the beginning, it was just a collec…
3 years, 5 months ago
Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient Mediterranean: Interview with Professor Peter van Dommelen
Season 5 Episode 21
When we think of the ancient Mediterranean, our minds first turn to familiar names, such as the Greeks and Romans. Yet the ancient world was full of …
3 years, 5 months ago