114. 640s BC Part 5 No more camels!

BEHEAD! (the horse)We're in the Spring and Autumn Period and man is this a really fun episode! I mean, where can you get all this in one place:• Human Sacrifice• Ghosts and Ghost Theory• Beguiling• Ti...

25 Juni 202447min

We're back in China for the first in a 2 part series. Confucius is a young man now... let's see what he's up to along with his really impressive contemporary Zichan of Zheng.As a bonus Bernie explains...

11 Juni 202457min

Garry and Bernie have a really interesting conversation about history podcasting, you the listener, and our love of history. Be a fly on the wall and join us!This is a podcast by Dan Hörning and Berni...

5 Juni 202435min

Cyrus finishes the conquest of Babylon and Babylonia, frees the Jews from captivity, and manages the largest empire in the world.LINK:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuCZgfGNMRgListener sent map of Ne...

29 Maj 202443min

In classic Fan of History style we give you Cyrus the Great's conquest of Babylon. No spoilers... Check it out!LinksHerodotus: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Herodotus/1d*.htmlThis...

15 Maj 202434min

Bernie and Gil discuss the Babylonian Intelligence Service and the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. The first time around didn't go so well for the Assyrians but maybe the Babylonians had ...

8 Maj 202456min

I've heard Dan Carlin say if it happened in Western history it probably happened even more so in Chinese history. In that vein we give you Lu Pu Pie's House of Drinking and Wife Swapping.(locations op...

1 Maj 202425min

We have a jam packed episode here for you guys! They say Genghis Khan was born clutching a bloody blood clot... but here we have Sun Tzu born on the same year of a major peace conference in China. His...

17 Apr 202431min