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Episode R7 – The Man Who Sold Troy
“Who will persuade me, when I reclined upon a mighty tomb, that it did not contain a hero? – its very magnitude proved this. Men do not labour over …
12 years, 1 month ago
Episode R6 – The Heroic Age
“I should weary the reader, were I to describe, step by step, the progress of the work, and the discoveries gradually made in various part of the gre…
12 years, 2 months ago
Episode R5 – Behistun Hat-Trick
“The Major constantly and indefatigably employed himself, from daylight to dark, revising, restoring and adding to his former materials. This was a …
12 years, 3 months ago
Episode R4 – Dwelling of the Lions
“What can all this mean? Who built this structure? In what century did he live? To what nation did he belong? Are these walls telling me their ta…
12 years, 3 months ago
Episode R3 – The Place of God
“My antiquarian studies go on quietly and smoothly, and despite the taunt which you may remember once expressing, of the presumption of an ignoramus …
12 years, 3 months ago
Episode R2 – Arabia Felix
“His Majesty…has dispatched a few days ago by the vessel Greenland a group of scholars, who will travel by way of the Mediterranean to Constantinople…
12 years, 4 months ago
Episode R1 – The Broken Stone
“To speak the name of the dead is to make them live again.” – Ancient Egyptian saying
Rediscovered two millennia after its creation, the Rosetta Ston…
12 years, 4 months ago
Episode 36 – And Then What Happened?
A little time-travel, a quick world tour, and plenty of thanks all around!
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12 years, 10 months ago
Episode 35 – On The Verge
“Rome was not a monarchy, but a free City, and they had made up their minds to open their gates even to an enemy sooner than to a king. It was the u…
12 years, 11 months ago
Episode 34 – Democracy and Republic, Part 2
“The Athenians, when ruled by tyrants, were no better in war than their neighbors, but freed from tyrants they were far superior. This shows that wh…
12 years, 11 months ago