Podcast Episodes

What's New In History - 40,000 year old writing??

Wow! 40,000 years ago... that's a lot earlier than we thought. Is this just click bait or is there something to this. Dan and Bernie break it down. T…

6 months, 1 week ago

234. 500s BC Final Episode

From East to South to North to West and everywhere in between, Dan finishes off the story of the last half millennia. He takes us through Southeast A…

6 months, 1 week ago

What’s New in History: The War Trumpet of Boudicca the Warrior Queen?

A war trumpet shaped like a snarling animal head, buried for nearly 2,000 years, has just been pulled out of the ground in Britain—and it may connect…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

233. 500s BC The Americas part 3: Strangling walruses, farming deserts, and a North American slave trade

Our final episode on the America's in the 500s BC delivers all the details and fun you expect from a Fan of History episode. Before the Inuit. Before…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

232. 500s BC – The Americas part 2: Mountains, Rainforest, and Sea

While Greece and Persia dominate the history books, entire worlds are developing across the Americas.

In this episode we explore:

• The Chavín network …

7 months, 1 week ago

231. 500s BC - The Americas Part 1 of 3: Before the Empires

Before the Maya kings. Before the Aztecs. Before the Inca.

While the Mediterranean world reorganizes itself, two continents across the ocean are devel…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

What´s New In History: Frozen in Time: Norway’s Ancient Reindeer Trap

New discoveries in Norway point to a large-scale, coordinated reindeer hunting operation from 1,500 years ago. But this isn’t just another dig—it’s p…

8 months ago

230. 500s BC part 13 - How a real Oarhole changed the history of Western Civilization

How do you ignite a decades-long East-West conflict? Sometimes all it takes is some meddlesome Greeks, a Persian Transformer, and a tight oarhole. In…

8 months, 1 week ago

What´s New In History: Escaping Vesuvius — The Romans Who Lived

Most people think everyone died when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Pompeii and Herculaneum froze in time — but the story didn’t stop there. In this What…

9 months ago

229. 500s BC Part 12 When Coins Took Over the World Part 2

Picking up where we left off, in part 2 of my conversation with Leo from Classical Numismatics, we go deeper—tracing the earliest coins across Rome, …

10 months ago