Amber Road: Baltic Gold of the North From Tutankhamun's Tomb to Aquileia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Fossilized resin from Baltic forests ended up on the breast ornament of Tutankhamun, dated to ab...
23 Okt 20min
Augustus and the Pax Romana: Closing the Gates of Janus as Imperial PR
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Pax Romana runs from 27 BC, when Augustus became Rome's first emperor, to the death of Marcu...
23 Okt 24min
Peloponnesian War: Pericles' Long Walls, Sicily Disaster and Aegospotami
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1996 the mayors of modern Athens and Sparta signed a symbolic treaty ending a war that began ...
23 Okt 22min
Neo-Assyrian Empire: Relay Riders, Mass Deportations and Nineveh's Fall
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Neo-Assyrian Empire ruled from 911 to 609 BCE and at its peak covered up to 1.4 million squa...
23 Okt 22min
Ancient Sumer: Cuneiform Ledgers, Base-60 Time and Fields Ruined by Salt
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sumer, the earliest known civilization, flourished in southern Mesopotamia from about 3300 to 19...
23 Okt 22min
Kingdom of Kush: Augustus' Buried Head, Meroe Iron and Antibiotic Beer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Nubian kingdom of Kush, south of Egypt on the Nile, was long treated as an Egyptian offshoot...
23 Okt 23min
Athenian Democracy: Red Rope, Kleroterion Lotteries and Water-Clock Trials
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In ancient Athens an idiotes was simply a private citizen who stayed out of politics, and that w...
23 Okt 25min
Burr Conspiracy: Wilkinson's Doctored Cipher and Marshall's Treason Test
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dropped from Thomas Jefferson's ticket in 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr asked British minister...
23 Okt 22min
