Episode #20 - Who Was The First Person To Sail Around The World? (Part II)
There are few expeditions from the so-called "age of discovery" as harrowing as Ferdinand Magellan's attempted circumnavigation of the globe. The journey was plagued by storms, scurvy, starvation, and...
9 Maj 201650min
Episode #19 - Who Was The First Person To Sail Around The World? (Part I)
Famous historical "firsts" tend to be controversial as a rule, and the world's first circumnavigation is no exception. Ferdinand Magellan is often celebrated as the first person to sail around the wor...
25 Apr 201648min
Episode #18 - Was There A Female Pope?
The story that a woman disguised as man was once elected Pope has been floating around since the 1200's. In fact it was widely believed for hundreds of years that there had once been a real female Pop...
11 Apr 201639min
Episode #17 - Was There A Real Trojan War? (Part III)
We have explored the myth of Trojan War and we have sung the Ballad of Heinrich Schliemann. All that's left is to answer the question that has inspired this entire trilogy of episodes. To determine wh...
29 Mars 201648min
Episode #16 - Was There A Real Trojan War? (Part II)
In our quest to discover if the Trojan War was a verifiable historical event we have to grapple with the amateur archaeologist who first tried to solve that mystery. Heinrich Schliemann believed that ...
12 Mars 201642min
Episode #15 - Was There A Real Trojan War? (Part I)
The story of the Trojan War is one of humanity's oldest tales of armed conflict. For the Ancient Greeks the war represented the bloody end of an historical epoch. The fall of the city marked the end o...
28 Feb 201648min
Episode #14 - Did Gods Colonize The Pacific?
The Pacific Ocean is the most expansive body of water on planet earth. Despite this fact ancient people managed to venture forth into its immensity and create a civilization of incredible sophisticati...
15 Feb 201650min
Episode #13 - Who Was The Real Braveheart? (Part II)
The Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace is so deeply enveloped in mythology that finding the real man can seem almost impossible. His life story has doubled as both entertainment and propaganda s...
1 Feb 201644min
