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The Ancients
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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.…
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23%Shapur I: Rome's Greatest Enemy?
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20%Scotland's First Warriors
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67%The Catiline Conspiracy
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34%Alexander the Great's Mad Scientist
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76%Hollywood’s Odyssey: The Historians' Verdict
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20%The First New Zealanders
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28%Odyssey | Sea of Monsters & Slaughter of the Suitors
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20%Caral: Oldest City in the Americas?
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21%Odyssey | Cyclops, Circe and Calypso
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25%Egypt's Book of the Dead
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76%The Trojan War
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26%The Flood Myth
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72%Delphi: Centre of the Ancient World
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24%Stonehenge with Ken Follett
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24%The Library of Alexandria
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31%Boudica and the Iceni
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24%The Cambrian Explosion: When Life Began?
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31%The Pharisees
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30%The Rosetta Stone
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34%Neanderthal Art
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27%Spartacus
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23%The Fall of Hadrian's Wall
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74%Iron Age Britain
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23%Prehistoric Greenland
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19%The Other Humans: Why We Survived?
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34%What If Alexander Fought Rome?
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77%The Real Armageddon
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33%Ancient China: The Warring States
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27%The Prehistoric Plague
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26%The Persian Gulf
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24%The Last Days of Pompeii
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23%The First Tools
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37%Athens vs Persia: The Legend of Themistocles
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27%The Hittites
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22%Homo Sapiens vs Neanderthals
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28%The Romans and China
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69%Judas Iscariot
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25%Britain's First Dog
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34%The Roman Centurion
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38%The Delian League: Ancient NATO?
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36%Leonidas: King of Sparta, Hero of Thermopylae
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29%What if the Ides of March Failed?
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29%Herodotus: The Father of History
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23%The Phoenicians
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34%Bronze Age Star Map: The Nebra Sky Disk
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23%The Age of Dinosaurs with Henry Gee
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33%Ramesses the Great: Death of a Dynasty
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20%Alexander the Great | Lord of Asia
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24%The House of Ramesses II: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh?
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20%The Fall of Persia | Alexander the Great
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22%The Skulls of Jericho
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21%The Invasion of Persia | Alexander the Great
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29%How to Write Cuneiform with Dr. Irving Finkel
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22%Alexander the Great | Rise to Power
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21%Adam and Eve
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26%The First Popes
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30%Xerxes the Great
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20%The Origins of Rome's Empire
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33%The First Arabians
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24%How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall
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27%Medea: Maligned Sorceress or Heartless Murderer?
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37%Fall of Sparta
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28%Rise of Christianity
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26%The First Life on Earth
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32%The Ice Age
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20%The Minoan Labyrinth
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23%Emperor Diocletian and the Great Persecution
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25%Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy
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29%Stegosaurus: Titan of the Jurassic
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28%Rise of King Herod
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28%The Ten Commandments
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27%Origins of Chocolate
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31%The Khmer Empire: Angkor Wat
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21%The World's Oldest Letters
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27%Emperor Tiberius: Monster or Misunderstood?
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21%Zoroastrianism
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24%Decline & Fall of the Ancient World
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24%Roman Toilets
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24%The Ancients Recommends: History Daily
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28%Antony and Cleopatra
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30%Proto-Vikings: The Nordic Bronze Age
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29%Fall of Babylon
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26%Origins of Yoga
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23%Boudica's Tribe: How the Iceni Survived the Romans
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27%Bog Bodies
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27%Marcus Aurelius: The Philosopher Emperor
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34%The Sons of Attila the Hun
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37%Rise of Islam
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23%The First Hawaiians
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23%Gladiators: A Day in the Life
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28%Origins of Mythology
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27%The First Pharaohs
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27%Inanna: Mesopotamian Sex Goddess
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25%The Picts: Rulers of the North
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21%The Permian Extinction: When Life Nearly Died
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20%541 AD: The Worst Year in History
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32%Fall of the Sumerians
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19%The Minoan Eruption: Bronze Age Cataclysm
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27%How Greece Shaped Rome with Mary Beard
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28%The Sumerians
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28%The Sea Peoples
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28%Origins of Homo Sapiens
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24%Ashurbanipal: The Last Great King of Assyria
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29%The White Huns
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35%Roman Aqueducts
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33%How to Survive in Carthage
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34%The Olmec: Mother of Mesoamerican Civilisations
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27%Livia: Empress of Rome
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25%Siberian Ice Mummies
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33%Fall of Roman London
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20%Irish Mythology
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30%Megalodon
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21%The First Sharks
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32%The Queen of Sheba
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37%Doggerland: The North Sea Atlantis?
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19%Hannibal's March on Rome
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24%Plato's Republic
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24%The Apocryphal Gospels
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20%Seahenge
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26%Rise of Nero
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23%Pirates of the Mediterranean
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30%The Amazons
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37%The Kushan Empire
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29%Rise of the Minoans
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32%The Kingdom of Aksum
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30%Pompeii: The Buried City
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29%Origins of Astronomy
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31%Successors of Alexander the Great
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32%The Saxons
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33%The Council of Nicaea
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27%The Last Roman Emperors
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25%Did Plague Destroy the Roman Empire?
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21%Barbarian Invaders: The Sacks of Rome
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33%The Fall of Rome: Origins
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21%Prehistoric Ireland: Newgrange
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20%Jason and the Argonauts
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70%The Birth of Indo-European
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34%The Praetorian Guard: Rise to Power
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30%John the Baptist
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26%Cassandra: Priestess of Troy
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25%The Great Jewish Revolt
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25%Rise of Humans
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25%Herculaneum
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29%Prehistoric Nigeria: The Nok
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25%Jurassic America
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31%The Fall of Athens
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28%The Iliad
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30%Rise of Julius Caesar
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30%Obelisks
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29%Sodom and Gomorrah
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32%Göbekli Tepe: The First Temple?
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24%Elektra: Revenge in Ancient Greece
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31%The Persian Wars: Xerxes, Thermopylae and Salamis
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25%End of Ice Age Britain
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28%The Persian Wars: Darius, Athens and the Battle of Marathon
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23%The Last Neanderthals
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28%The Scythians
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22%Ice Age Australia
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29%Hieroglyphs
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21%Woolly Mammoths
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30%The Chinese Zodiac
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36%The Kingdom of Kush
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25%Babylon's Epic of Creation
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23%The Franks
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23%The Roman Invasion of Britain
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24%Sargon of Akkad
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23%Rome's Crisis of the Third Century
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27%Atlantis
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22%Who Was the Real King Arthur?
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27%Emperor Constantine
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34%Tomb of King Herod
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29%Druids
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20%The Birth of Money
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23%The Thracians
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25%The Wise Men
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33%Hanukkah & the Maccabees
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33%Origins of the Wheel
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30%The First South Americans
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29%Fall of the Etruscans
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54%Tower of Babel
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28%Ice Age America
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23%Emperor Macrinus: Usurper of Rome
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34%Caracalla & Geta: The Real Emperors of Gladiator II
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24%The Minotaur
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28%The Ancient Amazon
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29%Prehistoric Japan
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30%Dead Sea Scrolls: The Copper Scroll
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30%Pyrrhus: Warlord of Ancient Greece
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31%Origins of the Inuit
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19%Ptolemy I: The First Greek Pharaoh
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33%The Circus Maximus
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29%The Edomites
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21%Anubis and the Underworld
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37%Darius the Great, Persian King of Kings
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21%The Legend of Osiris, King of the Dead
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23%The Fall of Carthage
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19%Isis and the Goddesses of Egypt
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20%Tyrannosaurus Rex
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34%Ra and the Sun Gods
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30%The Fall of Roman Britain
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27%Origins of the Egyptian Gods
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29%Massacre at Teutoburg Forest
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20%The Romans and India with William Dalrymple
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35%Battle of Teutoburg Forest: The Roman Invasion
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20%Petra: Ancient Wonder of the World
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22%The Sirens
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69%Origins of Beer
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32%The First Cats
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24%The Parthenon: Wonder of Athens
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24%Mycenae: Cradle of Bronze Age Greece
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76%Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor
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35%Origins of the Olympics
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31%Hestia: Goddess of Hearth & Home
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31%The Maya Collapse
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21%The Roman Gladiator
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31%Neanderthal Britain
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19%Pyramid of the Sun
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21%Roman Roads
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68%Birth of the Iron Age
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28%The Bronze Age Brotherhood of Kings
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24%Domina: Women Who Shaped Rome
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28%Temple Mount
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25%The Biblical Kingdom of Israel
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31%Heracles
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26%The Ark of the Covenant
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21%Origins of the Celts
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29%Moses & The Exodus
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24%The Parthians
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23%Noah's Ark and the Flood
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25%The Fall of Mark Antony: From Caesar to Cleopatra
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32%The Rise of Mark Antony
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21%Hadrian's Wall
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20%Spartacus: Life or Legend
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29%Dionysus: God of Wine
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31%Caligula
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33%The Cleopatras: A Dynasty of Rule Breakers
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74%Nineveh
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20%Origins of the Silk Road
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36%The Roman Auxiliary
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32%The Beaker People
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19%The Library of Alexandria
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60%Apollo: God of the Sun
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19%The Goths
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33%Looted Artefacts: Black Market of Archaeology
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30%The First Europeans
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20%How to Survive in Babylonia
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34%The Great Sphinx
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27%Pontius Pilate
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32%The Pantheon
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25%Britain After the Ice Age: Star Carr
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23%Great Wall of China
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31%Artemis: Goddess of the Hunt
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30%The Walls of Babylon
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30%The Origins of Wine
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29%The Great Pyramid of Giza
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38%Zenobia: Queen of Palmyra
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24%The Silver Pharaohs
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27%Roman Special Forces
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25%Origins of Carthage
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32%Ice Age Britain: Finding the First Homo sapiens
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22%Sulla
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35%Persia Reborn: Rise of the Sasanians
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27%The Epic of Gilgamesh: Quest for Immortality
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21%The Epic of Gilgamesh: Rise of Enkidu
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27%The First Dogs
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29%Hermes: Messenger of the Gods
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24%Alexander the Great
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24%Lascaux Cave: Ice Age Art
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37%Cicero
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32%The Bronze Age Collapse
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73%The First Irish
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21%Jericho
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20%How to Survive in Ancient Rome
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48%Zeus
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28%The Assassination of Julius Caesar
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36%Rise of Hannibal
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55%Sex & Sparta
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33%Sparta vs Athens: The Greek World War
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31%Jesus of Nazareth
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20%The Spartan Warrior
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24%Demeter with Natalie Haynes
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35%Origins of Sparta
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29%The Roman Secret Service
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21%The Vandals
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28%Keros: Bronze Age Mystery
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34%Treasures of Pompeii
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35%Kazakhstan's Valley of Kings
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20%Persephone: Queen of the Underworld
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33%The Illyrians: Pirates of the Adriatic
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29%Origins of Gaza
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21%Human Evolution: Dragon Man
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28%Witches
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32%The Sahara: Traders and Travellers
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27%The Murders of Alexander the Great
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34%How to Survive the Ice Age
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19%Hades: King of the Underworld
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29%Ötzi the Iceman
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23%Tyre: Jewel of Phoenicia
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21%Gladiators in Britain
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26%The Dead Sea Scrolls: Jesus, John the Baptist & Essenes
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