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The Ancients Recommends: History Daily

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Antony and Cleopatra

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Proto-Vikings: The Nordic Bronze Age

104

Fall of Babylon

105

Origins of Yoga

106

Boudica's Tribe: How the Iceni Survived the Romans

107

Bog Bodies

108

Marcus Aurelius: The Philosopher Emperor

109

The Sons of Attila the Hun

110

Rise of Islam

111

The First Hawaiians

112

Gladiators: A Day in the Life

113

Origins of Mythology

114

The First Pharaohs

115

Inanna: Mesopotamian Sex Goddess

116

The Picts: Rulers of the North

117

The Permian Extinction: When Life Nearly Died

118

541 AD: The Worst Year in History

119

Fall of the Sumerians

120

The Minoan Eruption: Bronze Age Cataclysm

121

How Greece Shaped Rome with Mary Beard

122

The Sumerians

123

The Sea Peoples

124

Origins of Homo Sapiens

125

Ashurbanipal: The Last Great King of Assyria

126

The White Huns

127

Roman Aqueducts

128

How to Survive in Carthage

129

The Olmec: Mother of Mesoamerican Civilisations

130

Livia: Empress of Rome

131

Siberian Ice Mummies

132

Fall of Roman London

133

Irish Mythology

134

Megalodon

135

The First Sharks

136

The Queen of Sheba

137

Doggerland: The North Sea Atlantis?

138

Hannibal's March on Rome

139

Plato's Republic

140

The Apocryphal Gospels

141

Seahenge

142

Rise of Nero

143

Pirates of the Mediterranean

144

The Amazons

145

The Kushan Empire

146

Rise of the Minoans

147

The Kingdom of Aksum

148

Pompeii: The Buried City

149

Origins of Astronomy

150

Successors of Alexander the Great

151

The Saxons

152

The Council of Nicaea

153

The Last Roman Emperors

154

Did Plague Destroy the Roman Empire?

155

Barbarian Invaders: The Sacks of Rome

156

The Fall of Rome: Origins

157

Prehistoric Ireland: Newgrange

158

Jason and the Argonauts

159

The Birth of Indo-European

160

The Praetorian Guard: Rise to Power

161

John the Baptist

162

Cassandra: Priestess of Troy

163

The Great Jewish Revolt

164

Rise of Humans

165

Herculaneum

166

Prehistoric Nigeria: The Nok

167

Jurassic America

168

The Fall of Athens

169

The Iliad

170

Rise of Julius Caesar

171

Obelisks

172

Sodom and Gomorrah

173

Göbekli Tepe: The First Temple?

174

Elektra: Revenge in Ancient Greece

175

The Persian Wars: Xerxes, Thermopylae and Salamis

176

End of Ice Age Britain

177

The Persian Wars: Darius, Athens and the Battle of Marathon

178

The Last Neanderthals

179

The Scythians

180

Ice Age Australia

181

Hieroglyphs

182

Woolly Mammoths

183

The Chinese Zodiac

184

The Kingdom of Kush

185

Babylon's Epic of Creation

186

The Franks

187

The Roman Invasion of Britain

188

Sargon of Akkad

189

Rome's Crisis of the Third Century

190

Atlantis

191

Who Was the Real King Arthur?

192

Emperor Constantine

193

Tomb of King Herod

194

Druids

195

The Birth of Money

196

The Thracians

197

The Wise Men

198

Hanukkah & the Maccabees

199

Origins of the Wheel

200

The First South Americans