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Adam and Eve
Episode 629
Adam and Eve: parents of humanity, or characters in a Near Eastern myth about wisdom, mortality, and the limits of being human?
Tristan Hughes and Dr …
6 months, 4 weeks ago
The First Popes
Episode 628
What do we know about the earliest Popes, and how did they shape the early Christian Church amidst persecution?
Tristan Hughes is joined by Professor …
7 months ago
Xerxes the Great
Episode 627
He is one of the most famous rulers of the ancient world, remembered for leading a vast Persian invasion of Greece. Yet Xerxes the Great was far more…
7 months ago
The Origins of Rome's Empire
Episode 626
396 BC. The city of Veii lies in ruins, destroyed by Rome in a brutal act of early imperial expansion. Yet just six years later, Rome itself would fa…
7 months, 1 week ago
The First Arabians
Episode 625
What can ancient DNA tell us about the first homo sapiens to arrive in Arabia over 50,000 years ago? Tristan Hughes is joined by Prof. Pierre Zalloua…
7 months, 1 week ago
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall
Episode 623
Step into the daily lives of those stationed along Hadrian's Wall, from Roman soldiers to civilians. Tristan Hughes and Dr. Francis Macintosh are you…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Medea: Maligned Sorceress or Heartless Murderer?
Episode 622
She helped Jason win the Golden Fleece, betrayed her own family, and became one of the most feared figures in Greek myth. Medea’s name has echoed thr…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Fall of Sparta
Episode 621
How did Sparta, the most feared military state in ancient Greece, fall from grace in a single generation?
In this episode of The Ancients, Tristan Hug…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Rise of Christianity
Episode 620
How did a persecuted minority religion rise to be embraced and enforced by mighty Roman Emperors?
Tristan Hughes is joined by Professor Peter Heather …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The First Life on Earth
Episode 619
Today we’re going back to the beginning – no Romans, Celts, Egyptians or Macedonians in sight. Billions of years of prehistory as we look at the emer…
7 months, 4 weeks ago