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The Ancients

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...

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

55 mins; May 20, 2023

Poverty Point: Centre of Ancient America

44 mins; May 17, 2023

Nebuchadnezzar

41 mins; May 13, 2023

Messalina: Empress of Rome

39 mins; May 10, 2023

Alexander The Great's Sex Life

44 mins; May 06, 2023

King Midas

50 mins; May 03, 2023

Lilith: Mesopotamian Demoness

50 mins; April 29, 2023

Athens: Birthplace of Democracy?

65 hours 46 mins; April 26, 2023

Knossos

50 mins; April 22, 2023

The First Toolmakers

43 mins; April 19, 2023

Iron Age Scotland: Clachtoll Broch

44 mins; April 15, 2023

The Great Fire of Rome

41 mins; April 12, 2023

Athena: Goddess of Wisdom

47 mins; April 08, 2023

Rise of the Assyrians

41 mins; April 05, 2023

Alexandria: The Sunken City

36 mins; April 01, 2023

Troy

49 mins; March 30, 2023

Roman Beast Hunts

33 mins; March 25, 2023

Sardinia: Mysteries of the Bronze Age

42 mins; March 22, 2023

Shetland: Edge of the Prehistoric World

45 mins; March 18, 2023

The Philistines

41 mins; March 15, 2023

Ares: God of War

41 mins; March 11, 2023

Septimius Severus

41 mins; March 08, 2023

Dinosaurs: The Last Days

42 mins; March 04, 2023

The First Humans

40 mins; March 01, 2023

Shirin: Heroine of Iran

48 mins; February 25, 2023

The Origins of Buddhism

35 mins; February 22, 2023

The Bantu Expansion

33 mins; February 18, 2023

The Colossus of Rhodes

29 mins; February 15, 2023

Cleopatra's Daughter

36 mins; February 11, 2023

Homo Erectus

55 mins; February 08, 2023

Aphrodite: Goddess of Love

51 mins; February 04, 2023

The Nazca Lines

52 mins; February 01, 2023

Feathered Dinosaurs

41 mins; January 28, 2023

Babylon

60 hours 7 mins; January 25, 2023

The Great Serpent Mound

40 mins; January 21, 2023

The Parthenon

45 mins; January 18, 2023

Orkney: Centre of the Stone Age

54 mins; January 14, 2023

The Kings of Rome

57 mins; January 11, 2023

Hephaestus: God of Fire

40 mins; January 07, 2023

The First Writing

33 mins; January 04, 2023

Spartacus

49 mins; December 28, 2022

The First Britons

49 mins; December 21, 2022

The Rise and Fall of Crassus

35 mins; December 17, 2022

Hammurabi: Rise of the Babylonians

42 mins; December 14, 2022

Hera: Queen of the Gods

45 mins; December 10, 2022

Carausius: The Pirate King

38 mins; December 07, 2022

Bethlehem

52 mins; December 03, 2022

Uruk: The First Cities

54 mins; November 30, 2022

Alexander the Great: Man and Myth

46 mins; November 26, 2022

The Legacy of Tutankhamun

33 mins; November 23, 2022

Rise of the Etruscans

56 mins; November 19, 2022

Valley of the Kings

51 mins; November 16, 2022

Zeus: King of the Gods

54 mins; November 12, 2022

The Tomb of Tutankhamun

37 mins; November 09, 2022

The World's Earliest Cave Art

34 mins; November 05, 2022

Tutankhamun

47 mins; November 02, 2022

Ukraine's Ancient Greek City

40 mins; October 29, 2022

Colosseum

43 mins; October 26, 2022

The First Black Archaeologist

39 mins; October 22, 2022

Virgil

41 mins; October 19, 2022

End of Stone Age Orkney

28 mins; October 15, 2022

Rosetta Stone

46 mins; October 12, 2022

Race in Antiquity

33 mins; October 08, 2022

March of the 10,000

47 mins; October 05, 2022

The Rise and Fall of Roman London

61 hours 2 mins; October 01, 2022

The Real King Arthur: Ambrosius Aurelianus

46 mins; September 28, 2022

Top Five Dinosaurs

45 mins; September 24, 2022

Karnak: Egypt's Greatest Temple

39 mins; September 21, 2022

Art of Neolithic Orkney

44 mins; September 17, 2022

Neanderthals

45 mins; September 14, 2022

Elizabeth II: The Making of The Queen

28 mins; September 08, 2022

Treasures of Tutankhamun

47 mins; September 07, 2022

Rise of the Persians

44 mins; September 03, 2022

Prosthetics in Antiquity

41 mins; August 31, 2022

Ancient Americas: the South American Stonehenge

45 mins; August 27, 2022

Ancient Americas: The Moche

53 mins; August 24, 2022

Ancient Americas: The Olmec Heads

42 mins; August 20, 2022

The Origins of Jerusalem

42 mins; August 17, 2022

Ancient Americas: Teotihuacan

51 mins; August 13, 2022

The Oracle of Delphi

44 mins; August 10, 2022

Ancient Americas: Debunking The Maya Apocalypse

41 mins; August 06, 2022

Hannibal vs Rome: Hannibal's Greatest Victory

31 mins; August 03, 2022

Hannibal vs Rome: The Road to Cannae

32 mins; July 30, 2022

Yorkshire's Roman Mystery: The Ryedale Hoard

29 mins; July 27, 2022

Hannibal vs Rome: Terror at Trasimene

39 mins; July 23, 2022

The Origins of Rome

44 mins; July 20, 2022

Sumerians and the Birth of Writing

51 mins; July 16, 2022

The Rise of Cleopatra

60 hours 22 mins; July 13, 2022

Rise of Rome: The Fall of the Samnites

34 mins; July 09, 2022

Rise of Rome: The First Samnite War

28 mins; July 06, 2022

Prehistoric Rock Art of Atlantic Europe

51 mins; July 02, 2022

Sparta and the Nazis

42 mins; June 29, 2022

The First Americans

63 hours 36 mins; June 25, 2022

The Rise of Mammals

54 mins; June 22, 2022

The Image of God

51 mins; June 18, 2022

Mermaids

51 mins; June 15, 2022

The Death of Alexander the Great: Explained

64 hours 59 mins; June 11, 2022

The Origins of Clothing

39 mins; June 08, 2022

Roman Treasures of Iron Age Scotland

43 mins; June 04, 2022

Boudica

54 mins; June 01, 2022

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