Frau Holle: Wicked Woman of Yule
This year, we’ve found one of the most metal and wild Yuletide goddesses yet – Frau Holle. Human sacrifices, spindles in yer vag, plague, starvation, caves of offerings and bones, the Grimms brothers,...
22 Dec 20221h 16min
Teotihuacan: Eat the Rich
Teotihuacan is an ancient pre-Colombian city in central America, founded two thousand years ago. It’s the home of some of the most iconic Mesoamerican monuments in existence, including the Pyramids of...
15 Dec 20221h 35min
Mohenjo Daro: Mound of the Dead Men
The Indus Valley civilization is one of the oldest, largest, most sophisticated Bronze Age civilizations we know about today. Roughly 80 cities and towns have been unearthed that were part of it. The ...
8 Dec 20221h 29min
Where Was the Land of Punt?
For over a thousand years, the ancient Egyptians sent their ships out to trade with a fabulous kingdom. They dragged their ships from the Nile to the coast of the Red Sea, and those ships returned gro...
1 Dec 20221h 9min
Inside the Skara Brae Sex Cult
Perched on a cliff at the edge of the world in the remote Orkney Islands, the ancient village of Skara Brae is a picturesque and dramatic sight. Carved into an ancient midden, it’s a warren of interco...
24 Nov 20221h 26min
The Mound Builders of Cahokia
Hundreds of years before European contact, the biggest city in North America was located along the Mississippi River. At its peak, perhaps 15,000 people lived there—and over 30,000 in the surrounding ...
17 Nov 20221h 38min
The Headless Megaliths of Gobekli Tepe
In our episode on the Sphinx Water Erosion Theory, we discussed the theory that the Sphinx was 10,000 years old. This date would require us to completely reorder our sense of how humanity evolved. We ...
10 Nov 20221h 38min
History Daily PIRATE TAKEOVER
Introducing History Daily, a podcast that tells the fascinating stories of what happened “on this day” in history, with host Lindsay Graham. Today, we're hosting two episodes from History Daily, both ...
8 Nov 202242min
