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<p>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. </p><br><p>New episodes every Sunday and Thursday.</p><br><p>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.</p><br><p>History Hit is part of Little Dot Studios, a Certified B Corp™</p><br><p>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 <a href="historyhit.com/subscribe"; rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>historyhit.com/subscribe</u></a>;. </p>

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  1. Easter Island

    <p>How do you make a giant stone statue walk? On one of the most isolated islands on Earth, the people of Rapa Nui carved AND moved the extraordinary Moai, colossal faces hewn from soft volcanic rock that still inspire wonder today.</p><br>

  2. Bronze Age Syria: Cradle of Cities

    <p>Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Hittites usually dominate the story of the Bronze Age. But Syria was home to some of the region's most powerful cities and kingdoms and helped forge the ancient Mediterranean world.</p><br><p>Tristan Hughes is

  3. Origins of Constantinople

    <p>Why did Emperor Constantine abandon Rome to build a spectacular new capital from scratch? In the year 312 a bloody civil war and a miraculous heavenly vision changed the Roman world forever.</p><br><p>Tristan Hughes and Professor Judith

  4. The Ninth Legion: Did They Disappear?

    <p>It's one of history’s most compelling cold cases. What happened to the Ninth Legion, a crack unit of 5,000 Roman soldiers who vanished from the historical record without a trace?</p><br><p>Tristan Hughes is joined by Roman historian Dr S

  5. Viking Origins: The Nordic Iron Age

    <p>Two thousand years ago, centuries before the Vikings, there was another Scandinavia. An Iron Age world.</p><br><p>Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen to uncover the deep roots of the seafaring North, journeying through a

  6. Caratacus: King of the Britons

    <p>Before Boudicca, another British leader brought the Roman war machine to a grinding halt. Meet Caratacus; the cunning King of the Britons who spent seven years outmaneuvering the empire.</p><p>Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr. Miles Russel

  7. Ancient Antarctica

    <p>The frozen continent of Antarctica was once a land of forests, rivers and thriving ecosystems. And millions of years before humans ever existed it was home to a whole host of ancient creatures, from the first sharks to the earliest marsu

  8. Prehistoric Penguins

    <p>When the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, one remarkable avian survivor traded the skies for the sea. Tristan Hughes and paleontologist Dr Steve Brusatte explore how prehistoric penguins emerged on ancient Zealandia, lost their flight a

  9. Life and Death in Ancient Babylon

    <p>Babylon was one of the greatest cities of the ancient world. But what was life really like for the people who lived there? Behind its magnificent temples and royal palaces lay a city of crowded streets, disease, danger and everyday strug

  10. The Gospels: Are They Historical?

    <p>How much can we really know about the historical Jesus? The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John have shaped Christianity for nearly 2,000 years, but they were written decades after the events they describe. So how should we treat the

  11. Maya Hieroglyphs Decoded

    <p>Forget everything you thought you knew about the ancient Maya. Cracking their mysterious hieroglyphs didn't just reveal boring calendars, it exposed a cutthroat, <em>Game of Thrones</em>-style world of rival superpowers, Tikal and Calakm

  12. Human Sacrifice in Ancient Britain

    <p><strong>WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of graphic violence from the start.</strong></p><br><p>When we picture human sacrifice in ancient Britain, the iconic, flaming Wicker Man often comes to mind. But how much of this is Ro

  13. Ice Age America: The Clovis Culture

    <p>Before the mammoths disappeared, people hunted them across Ice Age America. Armed with distinctive stone spear points, the mysterious Clovis culture left behind traces of a world filled with giant beasts and landscapes now lost to time.<

  14. The First Punic War

    <p>How did the Romans ambush a massive Carthaginian fleet from behind a Sicilian island to win one of history's fiercest sea battles? For over 20 years, Rome and Carthage fought a brutal war for supremacy over Sicily. Tristan Hughes is join

  15. Iron Age Ireland

    <p>How much of Iron Age Ireland is myth, and how much is archaeological reality? At the monumental Hill of Tara, sacred kings ruled over a landscape steeped in ancient ritual and ancestral memory.</p><br><p>Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr. J

  16. Human Origins: Did We Begin in Africa?

    <p>The story of human origins is often imagined as a simple journey from Africa, but is the truth actually much messier? Tristan Hughes and leading palaeoanthropologist Prof. Chris Stringer dismantle the traditional narrative, discussing ho

  17. Egypt's Lost Cities

    <p>What happens when an entire city disappears? Beneath the sands and wetlands of Egypt lie the remains of forgotten cities that once stood at the heart of one of the ancient world’s greatest civilisations.</p><br><p>In this episode of <em>

  18. Roman Emperor Augustus and His Trusted General

    <p>Augustus was Rome's first Emperor. But who made his empire possible? Behind the throne stood Marcus Agrippa, the brilliant general whose victories secured the Roman world yet whose name was consciously erased from the record by his erstw

  19. The Vandals

    <p>The Vandals have gone down in history as the barbarians who helped bring down the Western Roman Empire. Their name became synonymous with violence and destruction, but who were they really?</p><br><p>In this episode, Tristan Hughes is jo

  20. Terror Birds

    <p>What kind of predator needs no teeth to terrify its prey? The terror birds were enormous flightless hunters that ruled South America for millions of years, standing metres tall and built for a life of pursuit and slaughter.</p><br><p>In

  21. The Maya Ballgame

    <p>A rubber ball. A stone court. And a sport where the stakes could be life and death.</p><br><p>For more than 2,000 years, Mesoamerican peoples played a remarkable ballgame that became far more than entertainment; across the Maya world, it

  22. How Slavery Built the Roman Empire

    <p>Was the Roman Empire really made by conquest? Or was it powered by something much darker?</p><br><p>For centuries, millions of enslaved people sacrificed their lives and their labour on the altar of Roman progress, an integral cog in the

  23. Romulus & Remus

    <p>The story of Romulus and Remus is one of the most famous myths from the ancient world. But the Romans believed the founding of their city stretched far beyond the tale of the twin brothers. Heroes, kings and exiles all played a part in R

  24. Shapur I: Rome's Greatest Enemy?

    <p>Few rulers humbled Rome quite like Shapur I. A King of Kings, he rebuilt the Sasanian Persian Empire, defeated Roman armies and captured Emperor Valerian in one of antiquity's most remarkable military triumphs.</p><br><p>In this episode

  25. Scotland's First Warriors

    <p>Three thousand years ago, prehistoric Scotland was a landscape of rival communities, raids and warfare. Bands of warriors fought for power and territory leaving behind extraordinary weapons that reveal a more violent side to Scotland’s a

  26. The Catiline Conspiracy

    <p>In 63 BC, Rome faced a conspiracy that threatened to tear the Roman Republic apart. At its centre stood two figures: Marcus Tullius Cicero, the grand old orator of Rome and Lucius Sergius Catilina, accused of plotting violence, rebellion

  27. Alexander the Great's Mad Scientist

    <p><strong>WARNING: graphic descriptions of violence and warfare</strong></p><br><p>Meet Diades, Alexander the Great’s overlooked military engineer, the man who made the impossible siege of Tyre happen.</p><p>Tristan Hughes and Professor Ed

  28. Hollywood’s Odyssey: The Historians' Verdict

    <p>Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film Odyssey brings Homer’s epic roaring back to life and Tristan Hughes and Dr. Emily Hauser are here to unpack every storm, monster and star-making turn. From the brilliance of the adaptation to the anci

  29. The First New Zealanders

    <p>What if the first New Zealanders crossed an ocean, landed in a brand-new world, and built a whole society in just a few generations?</p><p>Tristan Hughes and Dr Richard Walter tell the story of East Polynesian voyagers who reached Aotear

  30. Odyssey | Sea of Monsters & Slaughter of the Suitors

    <p>When Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, his homecoming turns into a ruthless reckoning. Tristan Hughes and Dr. Emily Hauser dive into the shocking climax of Homer’s Odyssey, where hospitality, vengeance and survival collide in a blood-s

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