What topics does The Ancients cover?

The Ancients covers topics including: history.

The Ancients

EN621 episodes

history

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 hund...

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Episodes (621)

The Real Armageddon

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Ancient China: The Warring States

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The Prehistoric Plague

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The Persian Gulf

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Notable Guests

Episodes (621)

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