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Songlines: Australia's Book of Genesis
Episode 159
What the Book of Genesis is to the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, songlines are to Indigenous Australians. Epic tales of desire, pursu…
4 years, 2 months ago
Homosexuality & Ancient Greece
Episode 158
Frederick the Great, Marie Antoinette and Oscar Wilde. Each of them have talked about, or been talked about in terms of, Ancient Greek ideas of homos…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Bronze Age Burials at Stonehenge
Episode 157
Today we’re talking all about science, Stonehenge and what we know about a massive migration into Britain at the start of the Bronze Age some 4,500 y…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Origins of Life on Earth
Episode 156
Today we’re going back to the beginning – no Romans, Celts, Egyptians or Macedonians in sight. We’re going much further back, covering billions of ye…
4 years, 2 months ago
Vindolanda's 2021 Excavation
Episode 155
Situated roughly one mile south of Hadrian’s Wall is one of the great jewels of Roman and early medieval archaeology: Vindolanda. Over the past 50 ye…
4 years, 3 months ago
Menka: Village of the Breadfruit Goddess
Episode 154
It is one of the most remote ancient sites in the world. Situated on the isolated Micronesian island of Kosrae are the ruins of an ancient religious …
4 years, 3 months ago
Caracalla's Macedonian Phalanx
Episode 153
Alexander the Great and Caracalla. One often considered among the most successful military commanders of all time, the other, one of the worst empero…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Legacy of the Minoans
Episode 152
Minoan Crete has kept people captivated for millennia, appearing in countless modern cultural practices till this very day. But who are the Minoans? …
4 years, 3 months ago
The Rise of the Praetorian Guard
Episode 151
From Gladiator to Rome Total War to I, Claudius, today the Cohortēs praetōriae are one of the most distinctive military units of Imperial Rome. It wa…
4 years, 3 months ago
Ancient Globalisation? Life and Death at Ai Khanum
Episode 150
For decades the discovery of Ai Khanum, ‘the City of Lady Moon’, in Eastern Afghanistan has fascinated archaeologists and historians alike: from its …
4 years, 3 months ago