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The Ancients — 625 episodes
Iron Age Britain
Prehistoric Greenland
The Other Humans: Why We Survived?
What If Alexander Fought Rome?
The Real Armageddon
Ancient China: The Warring States
The Prehistoric Plague
The Persian Gulf
The Last Days of Pompeii
The First Tools
Athens vs Persia: The Legend of Themistocles
The Hittites
Homo Sapiens vs Neanderthals
The Romans and China
Judas Iscariot
Britain's First Dog
The Roman Centurion
The Delian League: Ancient NATO?
Leonidas: King of Sparta, Hero of Thermopylae
What if the Ides of March Failed?
Herodotus: The Father of History
The Phoenicians
Bronze Age Star Map: The Nebra Sky Disk
The Age of Dinosaurs with Henry Gee
Ramesses the Great: Death of a Dynasty
Alexander the Great | Lord of Asia
The House of Ramesses II: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh?
The Fall of Persia | Alexander the Great
The Skulls of Jericho
The Invasion of Persia | Alexander the Great
How to Write Cuneiform with Dr. Irving Finkel
Alexander the Great | Rise to Power
Adam and Eve
The First Popes
Xerxes the Great
The Origins of Rome's Empire
The First Arabians
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall
Medea: Maligned Sorceress or Heartless Murderer?
Fall of Sparta
Rise of Christianity
The First Life on Earth
The Ice Age
The Minoan Labyrinth
Emperor Diocletian and the Great Persecution
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy
Stegosaurus: Titan of the Jurassic
Rise of King Herod
The Ten Commandments
Origins of Chocolate
The Khmer Empire: Angkor Wat
The World's Oldest Letters
Emperor Tiberius: Monster or Misunderstood?
Zoroastrianism
Decline & Fall of the Ancient World
Roman Toilets
The Ancients Recommends: History Daily
Antony and Cleopatra
Proto-Vikings: The Nordic Bronze Age
Fall of Babylon
Origins of Yoga
Boudica's Tribe: How the Iceni Survived the Romans
Bog Bodies
Marcus Aurelius: The Philosopher Emperor
The Sons of Attila the Hun
Rise of Islam
The First Hawaiians
Gladiators: A Day in the Life
Origins of Mythology
The First Pharaohs
Inanna: Mesopotamian Sex Goddess
The Picts: Rulers of the North
The Permian Extinction: When Life Nearly Died
541 AD: The Worst Year in History
Fall of the Sumerians
The Minoan Eruption: Bronze Age Cataclysm
How Greece Shaped Rome with Mary Beard
The Sumerians
The Sea Peoples
Origins of Homo Sapiens
Ashurbanipal: The Last Great King of Assyria
The White Huns
Roman Aqueducts
How to Survive in Carthage
The Olmec: Mother of Mesoamerican Civilisations
Livia: Empress of Rome
Siberian Ice Mummies
Fall of Roman London
Irish Mythology
Megalodon
The First Sharks
The Queen of Sheba
Doggerland: The North Sea Atlantis?
Hannibal's March on Rome
Plato's Republic
The Apocryphal Gospels
Seahenge
Rise of Nero
Pirates of the Mediterranean
The Amazons
The Kushan Empire
Rise of the Minoans
The Kingdom of Aksum
Pompeii: The Buried City
Origins of Astronomy
Successors of Alexander the Great
The Saxons
The Council of Nicaea
The Last Roman Emperors
Did Plague Destroy the Roman Empire?
Barbarian Invaders: The Sacks of Rome
The Fall of Rome: Origins
Prehistoric Ireland: Newgrange
Jason and the Argonauts
The Birth of Indo-European
The Praetorian Guard: Rise to Power
John the Baptist
Cassandra: Priestess of Troy
The Great Jewish Revolt
Rise of Humans
Herculaneum
Prehistoric Nigeria: The Nok
Jurassic America
The Fall of Athens
The Iliad
Rise of Julius Caesar
Obelisks
Sodom and Gomorrah
Göbekli Tepe: The First Temple?
Elektra: Revenge in Ancient Greece
The Persian Wars: Xerxes, Thermopylae and Salamis
End of Ice Age Britain
The Persian Wars: Darius, Athens and the Battle of Marathon
The Last Neanderthals
The Scythians
Ice Age Australia
Hieroglyphs
Woolly Mammoths
The Chinese Zodiac
The Kingdom of Kush
Babylon's Epic of Creation
The Franks
The Roman Invasion of Britain
Sargon of Akkad
Rome's Crisis of the Third Century
Atlantis
Who Was the Real King Arthur?
Emperor Constantine
Tomb of King Herod
Druids
The Birth of Money
The Thracians
The Wise Men
Hanukkah & the Maccabees
Origins of the Wheel
The First South Americans
Fall of the Etruscans
Tower of Babel
Ice Age America
Emperor Macrinus: Usurper of Rome
Caracalla & Geta: The Real Emperors of Gladiator II
The Minotaur
The Ancient Amazon
Prehistoric Japan
Dead Sea Scrolls: The Copper Scroll
Pyrrhus: Warlord of Ancient Greece
Origins of the Inuit
Ptolemy I: The First Greek Pharaoh
The Circus Maximus
The Edomites
Anubis and the Underworld
Darius the Great, Persian King of Kings
The Legend of Osiris, King of the Dead
The Fall of Carthage
Isis and the Goddesses of Egypt
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Ra and the Sun Gods
The Fall of Roman Britain
Origins of the Egyptian Gods
Massacre at Teutoburg Forest
The Romans and India with William Dalrymple
Battle of Teutoburg Forest: The Roman Invasion
Petra: Ancient Wonder of the World
The Sirens
Origins of Beer
The First Cats
The Parthenon: Wonder of Athens
Mycenae: Cradle of Bronze Age Greece
Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor
Origins of the Olympics
Hestia: Goddess of Hearth & Home
The Maya Collapse
The Roman Gladiator
Neanderthal Britain
Pyramid of the Sun
Roman Roads
Birth of the Iron Age
The Bronze Age Brotherhood of Kings
Domina: Women Who Shaped Rome
Temple Mount
The Biblical Kingdom of Israel
Heracles
The Ark of the Covenant
Origins of the Celts
Moses & The Exodus
The Parthians
Noah's Ark and the Flood
The Fall of Mark Antony: From Caesar to Cleopatra
The Rise of Mark Antony
Hadrian's Wall
Spartacus: Life or Legend
Dionysus: God of Wine
Caligula
The Cleopatras: A Dynasty of Rule Breakers
Nineveh
Origins of the Silk Road
The Roman Auxiliary
The Beaker People
The Library of Alexandria
Apollo: God of the Sun
The Goths
Looted Artefacts: Black Market of Archaeology
The First Europeans
How to Survive in Babylonia
The Great Sphinx
Pontius Pilate
The Pantheon
Britain After the Ice Age: Star Carr
Great Wall of China
Artemis: Goddess of the Hunt
The Walls of Babylon
The Origins of Wine
The Great Pyramid of Giza
Zenobia: Queen of Palmyra
The Silver Pharaohs
Roman Special Forces
Origins of Carthage
Ice Age Britain: Finding the First Homo sapiens
Sulla
Persia Reborn: Rise of the Sasanians
The Epic of Gilgamesh: Quest for Immortality
The Epic of Gilgamesh: Rise of Enkidu
The First Dogs
Hermes: Messenger of the Gods
Alexander the Great
Lascaux Cave: Ice Age Art
Cicero
The Bronze Age Collapse
The First Irish
Jericho
How to Survive in Ancient Rome
Zeus
The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Rise of Hannibal
Sex & Sparta
Sparta vs Athens: The Greek World War
Jesus of Nazareth
The Spartan Warrior
Demeter with Natalie Haynes
Origins of Sparta
The Roman Secret Service
The Vandals
Keros: Bronze Age Mystery
Treasures of Pompeii
Kazakhstan's Valley of Kings
Persephone: Queen of the Underworld
The Illyrians: Pirates of the Adriatic
Origins of Gaza
Human Evolution: Dragon Man
Witches
The Sahara: Traders and Travellers
The Murders of Alexander the Great
How to Survive the Ice Age
Hades: King of the Underworld
Ötzi the Iceman
Tyre: Jewel of Phoenicia
Gladiators in Britain
The Dead Sea Scrolls: Jesus, John the Baptist & Essenes
Roman Emperors with Mary Beard
The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of Qumran
Ramesses the Great
Harappan Civilisation
The Roman Legionary
Liangzhu: Cradle of Chinese Civilisation?
Medusa
Origins of Olive Oil
Pompeii: The Eruption of Vesuvius
Maya Sacrifice & Warfare
Homo floresiensis: Early Human ‘Hobbit’
Sex Work in Pompeii
Attila the Hun: Terror of Rome
Gladiators of Pompeii
Attila the Hun: Scourge of God
Pompeii: Life Before the Eruption
Cyrus the Great
Chichén Itzá
Poseidon: God of the Sea
Stonehenge
Homo Naledi: The First Burials?
Jersey: Ice Age Island
Helen of Troy with Natalie Haynes
Chandragupta Maurya: Hero of India
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
Lion Man: The First Myth?
Persia and the Bible
Achilles
Origins of Water
The Picts
The First Spears
Human Origins: Australopithecus
Ravenna and the Fall of Rome
Boudica's Battle of Britain
Origins of Horse Riding
Babylon and the Bible
The Cyrus Cylinder
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Poverty Point: Centre of Ancient America
Nebuchadnezzar
Messalina: Empress of Rome
Alexander The Great's Sex Life
King Midas
Lilith: Mesopotamian Demoness
Athens: Birthplace of Democracy?
Knossos
The First Toolmakers
Iron Age Scotland: Clachtoll Broch
The Great Fire of Rome
Athena: Goddess of Wisdom
Rise of the Assyrians
Alexandria: The Sunken City
Troy
Roman Beast Hunts
Sardinia: Mysteries of the Bronze Age
Shetland: Edge of the Prehistoric World
The Philistines
Ares: God of War
Septimius Severus
Dinosaurs: The Last Days
The First Humans
Shirin: Heroine of Iran
The Origins of Buddhism
The Bantu Expansion
The Colossus of Rhodes
Cleopatra's Daughter
Homo Erectus
Aphrodite: Goddess of Love
The Nazca Lines
Feathered Dinosaurs
Babylon
The Great Serpent Mound
The Parthenon
Orkney: Centre of the Stone Age
The Kings of Rome
Hephaestus: God of Fire
The First Writing
Spartacus
The First Britons
The Rise and Fall of Crassus
Hammurabi: Rise of the Babylonians
Hera: Queen of the Gods
Carausius: The Pirate King
Bethlehem
Uruk: The First Cities
Alexander the Great: Man and Myth
The Legacy of Tutankhamun
Rise of the Etruscans
Valley of the Kings
Zeus: King of the Gods
The Tomb of Tutankhamun
The World's Earliest Cave Art
Tutankhamun
Ukraine's Ancient Greek City
Colosseum
The First Black Archaeologist
Virgil
End of Stone Age Orkney
Rosetta Stone
Race in Antiquity
March of the 10,000
The Rise and Fall of Roman London
The Real King Arthur: Ambrosius Aurelianus
Top Five Dinosaurs
Karnak: Egypt's Greatest Temple
Art of Neolithic Orkney
Neanderthals
Elizabeth II: The Making of The Queen
Treasures of Tutankhamun
Rise of the Persians
Prosthetics in Antiquity
Ancient Americas: the South American Stonehenge
Ancient Americas: The Moche
Ancient Americas: The Olmec Heads
The Origins of Jerusalem
Ancient Americas: Teotihuacan
The Oracle of Delphi
Ancient Americas: Debunking The Maya Apocalypse
Hannibal vs Rome: Hannibal's Greatest Victory
Hannibal vs Rome: The Road to Cannae
Yorkshire's Roman Mystery: The Ryedale Hoard
Hannibal vs Rome: Terror at Trasimene
The Origins of Rome
Sumerians and the Birth of Writing
The Rise of Cleopatra
Rise of Rome: The Fall of the Samnites
Rise of Rome: The First Samnite War
Prehistoric Rock Art of Atlantic Europe
Sparta and the Nazis
The First Americans
The Rise of Mammals
The Image of God
Mermaids
The Death of Alexander the Great: Explained
The Origins of Clothing
Roman Treasures of Iron Age Scotland
Boudica
Saint Brigid: Turning Bathwater into Beer
Greeks vs Romans: Empires at War
Iron Age Wales: Before the Romans
Homer
The Origins of Homo Sapiens
The Birth of Physiology
Pandora
The World of Stonehenge
The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
An Ancient Guide to Healthy Living
Saint George
Food in the Greco-Roman World
Mary Magdalene
Weapons of the Terracotta Army
The Rise of Marius: Third Founder of Rome
Before Rome: The Truth About Late Iron Age Britain
The Symposium: How To Party Like An Ancient Greek
Dogs in Ancient Greece
The Legacy of Julius Caesar's Assassination
The Rise of the Dinosaurs
Young Caesar vs Marc Antony
Saint Patrick
The Rise and Fall of Brutus
Helen of Troy
The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Explained
The Origins of Ukraine
Sappho: The Poet from Lesbos
The Terracotta Army
Eureka! Innovation in Ancient Greece
The First Australians
The Truth About Saint Valentine
The Largest Roman Palace North of the Alps
The Origins of London
The Phoenician World
Alexander's Successors at War: The Spartan Adventurer
The Scholars of Assyria
Alexander the Great & The Persian Thermopylae (Part Two)
Alexander the Great & The Persian Thermopylae (Part One)
The Birth of the Roman Empire
The Seleucid Empire: In the Shadow of Rome
Spinning in the Roman World
Cannibalism
Alexander The Great vs Julius Caesar
How Julius Caesar Changed Time
Race & Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel
Hannibal's Winter War
King Herod
How to Party Like a Roman
Songlines: Australia's Book of Genesis
Homosexuality & Ancient Greece
The Bronze Age Burials at Stonehenge
The Origins of Life on Earth
Vindolanda's 2021 Excavation
Menka: Village of the Breadfruit Goddess
Caracalla's Macedonian Phalanx
The Legacy of the Minoans
The Rise of the Praetorian Guard
Ancient Globalisation? Life and Death at Ai Khanum
The First Astronomers
Glasgow's Roman Remains & Hadrian's Wall
The Truth About the Roman Orgy (And More!)
The End of the Severan Dynasty
Mavia: Arabia's Warrior Queen
Ancient Kazakhstan: Gold of the Great Steppe
Caracalla: The Common Enemy of Mankind?
Ai Khanum: A Greek City in Afghanistan?
Alexander the Great's Greatest Victory
Nefertiti
The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great
The Oldest Human Footprints in North America
Roman Weapons
Werewolves and Strix-Witches
Fortress Cilicia: Megastructures in the Near East
Clodius: Best Villain of the Roman Republic?
Maya Warfare and Sacrifice
The Origins of Civilisation
Sex in Ancient Rome
Romans vs Caledonians: The Battle of Mons Graupius
Roman Camps in Britain
Nan Madol: Venice of the Pacific
The Lost Tomb of Cleopatra
The Rise of Marseilles: France's Oldest City
The Rise of Hannibal
Colchester: From Bronze Age to Boudica
Tacfarinas: The Desert Hydra
Palaces in Paradise: Centres of the Persian World
Pompeii’s Indian Statuette
10 Key Roman Emperors
Sisters at War: The Rise and Fall of Elagabalus
The Lost Baths of Cleopatra
The Gladiatrix
Alexander the Great’s Corpse & the Greatest Heist in History
The Sacred Band of Thebes
The Begram Hoard: Treasures of the Silk Road
Decoding the Roman Dead
Life in Sparta
The Oldest Known Shark Attack
The Romans in Brittany
Scythed Chariots
Carthage vs Greeks? The First Sicilian War
Julius Caesar’s Invasions of Britain
Begram: Crossroads of the Ancient World
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Strait of Messina
Persepolis: Jewel of Persia
Divorced, Murdered, Survived: Nero's Wives
The Truth About Spartan Society
Vindolanda: Jewel of Roman Britain
Artemis of Ephesus: The Great Mother Goddess
Dirty Love: The Ancient Greek Novel
Ancient Brittany with Sir Barry Cunliffe
Scotland's Earliest Animal Carvings: An Incredible New Discovery
Berenike and the Red Sea Spice Route
Nero: Taking to the Stage
Iron Age British and Roman Racing Chariots
Polynesian Mythology
The Golden Age of Chariots
Alexander the Great's First Persian Victory
Ancient Polynesia: Pioneers of the Pacific
The Truth About King Arthur
Olympia: The Golden Age
Ancient Afghanistan: The Land of a Thousand Cities
The Rise of Olympia
How the Romans Treated Eye Infections
How Corinth Became Christian
The Truth About The Huns
The Olympic Games
Cicero’s Fight for the Roman Republic
Roman Prisoners of War
Introducing 'Leonardo: The Official Podcast'
The Legacy of Thermopylae
Edges of Empire: Chesters Roman Fort
Lessons from the Antonine Plague
Persia's Untapped Source: The Persepolis Fortification Texts
Jewish Burial at the Time of Jesus
The Xiongnu: History's First Nomadic Empire?
Music in Ancient Greece
The Rise of Cicero
Boudica: Through Roman Eyes
Petra: The Rose City
The Ides of March
Women and Power in Ancient Egypt
Boudica: Britain's Warrior Queen
The Origins of Warfare
Cheddar Man: Science and the Skeleton
Petra: Rise of the Nabataeans
Lugdunum: The Biggest Battle in Roman History?
Palmyra: Pearl of the Desert
Myths of Masada
Rome: 'The Eternal City'
Besieging Masada
Beasts of Battle: Indian War Elephants
Edges of Empire: Rome's Northernmost Town
Roman Military Tombstones: Uncovering the Unknown Warriors
The Mystery of the Ninth Legion
Edges of Empire: The Sasanian Frontiers
Indonesian Cave Art: A Dramatic New Discovery
Tomyris: A Warrior Queen's Revenge
Oppian’s Halieutica: Creatures of the Ancient Deep
Hannibal: Battle by the Trebia
How Ancient Egypt Stayed Egyptian
El Kurru: Egypt's Nubian Pharaohs
Hatshepsut: Egypt's Hidden Pharaoh
The Mystery of Mithras: A Pagan Christmas?
Saturnalia: Bonus Episode!
Hannibal: Crossing the Alps
Thucydides: Thoughts on the Athenian Empire
The Garamantes: Farming the Sahara
Scotland's Enigmatic Ancient Structures
Old Testament Warriors
Spartacus: Life or Legend?
Dura-Europos: The Syrian Pompeii
Pompeii and the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Linothorax: Kevlar of the Ancients
Volcanic Vineyards of Pompeii
Terror in the Teutoburg Forest
Agrippa and Augustus: The Golden Age
The Other Alexander
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
Catullus: Rome's Most Erotic Poet
Ancient Ethiopia: The Kingdom of Aksum
The Origins of Ancient Vietnam
The Battle of Philippi: Death of the Roman Republic
Sophocles' Lost Plays
69 AD: Rise of Vespasian
Crassus and the Battle of Carrhae: The Defeat of Rome
Septimius Severus in Scotland
Nero the Antichrist?
Agrippa: Rome's Forgotten Hero
The Polynesians: Ancient Mariners of the Pacific
The Battle of Salamis
The Rise of Constantine
Jason and the Golden Fleece
Alexander the Great: Through Persian Eyes
The Roman Forum
The Vestal Virgins
Pax Romana
Kingdom of Kush
Battle of Artemisium
Battle of Thermopylae
War Elephants
'Killing for the Roman Republic'
Combat Trauma
Stone Circles
Agrippina the Younger
Horse Archery
Antonine Wall
Housesteads and Hadrian's Wall
Origins of Biological & Chemical Warfare
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Plague of Athens