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A podcast for all ancient history fans! The Ancients is dedicated to discussing our distant past. Featuring interviews with historians and archaeologists, each episode covers a specific theme from antiquity. From Neolithic Britain to the Fall of Rome. Hosted by Tristan Hughes. New episodes every Sunday and Thursday.From History Hit, the world's best history channel and creators of award-winning podcasts Dan Snow's History Hit, Gone Medieval, and Betwixt the Sheets.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. Hos...

Britain's First Dog

49 mins; April 01, 2026

The Roman Centurion

60 hours 6 mins; March 28, 2026

The Delian League: Ancient NATO?

65 hours 58 mins; March 25, 2026

Leonidas: King of Sparta, Hero of Thermopylae

63 hours 44 mins; March 21, 2026

What if the Ides of March Failed?

63 hours 25 mins; March 18, 2026

Herodotus: The Father of History

48 mins; March 14, 2026

The Phoenicians

63 hours 5 mins; March 11, 2026

Bronze Age Star Map: The Nebra Sky Disk

50 mins; March 07, 2026

The Age of Dinosaurs with Henry Gee

77 hours 28 mins; March 04, 2026

Ramesses the Great: Death of a Dynasty

56 mins; February 28, 2026

Alexander the Great | Lord of Asia

76 hours 46 mins; February 25, 2026

The House of Ramesses II: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh?

58 mins; February 21, 2026

The Fall of Persia | Alexander the Great

73 hours 44 mins; February 18, 2026

The Skulls of Jericho

53 mins; February 14, 2026

The Invasion of Persia | Alexander the Great

64 hours 55 mins; February 11, 2026

How to Write Cuneiform with Dr. Irving Finkel

60 hours 21 mins; February 07, 2026

Alexander the Great | Rise to Power

84 hours 13 mins; February 04, 2026

Adam and Eve

59 mins; January 31, 2026

The First Popes

56 mins; January 28, 2026

Xerxes the Great

55 mins; January 24, 2026

The Origins of Rome's Empire

58 mins; January 21, 2026

The First Arabians

50 mins; January 17, 2026

How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall

70 hours 35 mins; January 14, 2026

Medea: Maligned Sorceress or Heartless Murderer?

52 mins; January 10, 2026

Fall of Sparta

74 hours 4 mins; January 07, 2026

Rise of Christianity

67 hours 2 mins; January 03, 2026

The First Life on Earth

82 hours 19 mins; December 31, 2025

The Ice Age

32 mins; December 27, 2025

The Minoan Labyrinth

42 mins; December 24, 2025

Emperor Diocletian and the Great Persecution

57 mins; December 20, 2025

Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

55 mins; December 17, 2025

Stegosaurus: Titan of the Jurassic

45 mins; December 13, 2025

Rise of King Herod

48 mins; December 10, 2025

The Ten Commandments

56 mins; December 06, 2025

Origins of Chocolate

44 mins; December 03, 2025

The Khmer Empire: Angkor Wat

37 mins; November 29, 2025

The World's Oldest Letters

55 mins; November 26, 2025

Emperor Tiberius: Monster or Misunderstood?

53 mins; November 22, 2025

Zoroastrianism

60 hours 26 mins; November 19, 2025

Decline & Fall of the Ancient World

46 mins; November 15, 2025

Roman Toilets

63 hours 46 mins; November 12, 2025

The Ancients Recommends: History Daily

32 mins; November 10, 2025

Antony and Cleopatra

53 mins; November 08, 2025

Proto-Vikings: The Nordic Bronze Age

53 mins; November 05, 2025

Fall of Babylon

47 mins; November 01, 2025

Origins of Yoga

54 mins; October 29, 2025

Boudica's Tribe: How the Iceni Survived the Romans

60 hours 24 mins; October 25, 2025

Bog Bodies

62 hours 2 mins; October 22, 2025

Marcus Aurelius: The Philosopher Emperor

69 hours 7 mins; October 18, 2025

The Sons of Attila the Hun

46 mins; October 15, 2025

Rise of Islam

64 hours 8 mins; October 11, 2025

The First Hawaiians

51 mins; October 08, 2025

Gladiators: A Day in the Life

59 mins; October 04, 2025

Origins of Mythology

47 mins; October 01, 2025

The First Pharaohs

45 mins; September 27, 2025

Inanna: Mesopotamian Sex Goddess

41 mins; September 24, 2025

The Picts: Rulers of the North

45 mins; September 20, 2025

The Permian Extinction: When Life Nearly Died

58 mins; September 17, 2025

541 AD: The Worst Year in History

64 hours 20 mins; September 13, 2025

Fall of the Sumerians

61 hours 36 mins; September 10, 2025

The Minoan Eruption: Bronze Age Cataclysm

55 mins; September 06, 2025

How Greece Shaped Rome with Mary Beard

53 mins; September 03, 2025

The Sumerians

50 mins; August 30, 2025

The Sea Peoples

71 hours 7 mins; August 27, 2025

Origins of Homo Sapiens

41 mins; August 23, 2025

Ashurbanipal: The Last Great King of Assyria

52 mins; August 20, 2025

The White Huns

53 mins; August 16, 2025

Roman Aqueducts

64 hours 50 mins; August 13, 2025

How to Survive in Carthage

68 hours 10 mins; August 09, 2025

The Olmec: Mother of Mesoamerican Civilisations

68 hours 13 mins; August 06, 2025

Livia: Empress of Rome

60 hours 21 mins; August 02, 2025

Siberian Ice Mummies

49 mins; July 30, 2025

Fall of Roman London

58 mins; July 26, 2025

Irish Mythology

66 hours 8 mins; July 23, 2025

Megalodon

40 mins; July 19, 2025

The First Sharks

51 mins; July 16, 2025

The Queen of Sheba

52 mins; July 12, 2025

Doggerland: The North Sea Atlantis?

47 mins; July 09, 2025

Hannibal's March on Rome

55 mins; July 05, 2025

Plato's Republic

55 mins; July 02, 2025

The Apocryphal Gospels

38 mins; June 28, 2025

Seahenge

45 mins; June 25, 2025

Rise of Nero

67 hours 24 mins; June 21, 2025

Pirates of the Mediterranean

63 hours 45 mins; June 18, 2025

The Amazons

70 hours 11 mins; June 14, 2025

The Kushan Empire

59 mins; June 11, 2025

Rise of the Minoans

44 mins; June 07, 2025

The Kingdom of Aksum

59 mins; June 04, 2025

Pompeii: The Buried City

52 mins; May 31, 2025

Origins of Astronomy

53 mins; May 28, 2025

Successors of Alexander the Great

62 hours 37 mins; May 24, 2025

The Saxons

48 mins; May 21, 2025

The Council of Nicaea

38 mins; May 17, 2025

The Last Roman Emperors

68 hours 19 mins; May 14, 2025

Did Plague Destroy the Roman Empire?

60 hours 50 mins; May 10, 2025

Barbarian Invaders: The Sacks of Rome

72 hours 57 mins; May 07, 2025

The Fall of Rome: Origins

74 hours 33 mins; May 03, 2025

Prehistoric Ireland: Newgrange

57 mins; April 30, 2025

Jason and the Argonauts

52 mins; April 26, 2025

The Birth of Indo-European

42 mins; April 23, 2025

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