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The Minoan Eruption: Bronze Age Cataclysm
Episode 581
More than 3,500 years ago, a massive volcanic eruption devastated Thera - modern day Santorini - engulfing the Bronze Age world in ash and fire. Enti…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
How Greece Shaped Rome with Mary Beard
Episode 580
Professor Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins join Tristan in this episode all about Greece and Rome - the two greatest civilisations of classical antiq…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Sumerians
Episode 579
More than 5,000 years ago, in what is today southern Iraq, one of the world’s first civilisations emerged. A civilisation often credited with the inv…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Sea Peoples
Episode 578
Tristan Hughes sits down with Professor Eric Cline to explore the enigmatic Sea Peoples, often blamed for the catastrophic Bronze Age collapse over 3…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Origins of Homo Sapiens
Episode 577
Where do we come from? The origins of modern humans stretch back hundreds of thousands of years, and new discoveries are reshaping how we understand …
6 months ago
Ashurbanipal: The Last Great King of Assyria
Episode 576
Known as the 'King of the World' and the last great king of Assyria, Ashurbanipal bestrode the ancient Mesopotamian world as a warrior but also a sch…
6 months ago
The White Huns
Episode 575
The Huns weren’t just Attila’s warriors in Europe — in Central Asia, the White Huns built the most powerful Hunnic empire, ruling for a century and d…
6 months, 1 week ago
Roman Aqueducts
Episode 573
How did Roman aqueducts help build an empire? They’re some of the most iconic structures from the ancient world — feats of engineering that transform…
6 months, 1 week ago
How to Survive in Carthage
Episode 572
From towering tenements to Punic porridge — step into the streets of ancient Carthage.
In this immersive episode of The Ancients, Tristan travels back…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Olmec: Mother of Mesoamerican Civilisations
Episode 571
Iconic monumental stone heads, the intriguing Lord of Las Limas, the enigmatic 'were-jaguar' figures, so much survives from the ancient Olmec civilis…
6 months, 2 weeks ago