ancient history

Imagine a desert stretching over 1,500 miles along the Peruvian coastline, between the high Andes to the east and the vast Pacific coastline to the west. A place of brilliant [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here is Jenny’s favorite Nazca geoglyph: Here’s that adorable lobster! Here is the Pampas cat. This is one of the Paracas glyphs! Here is a pic [...Read More...]

Become a Patron!   This episode wouldn’t have been possible without these sources: Ancient Americas: Teotihuacan Where One Becomes a God (Video)  Sideprojects [...Read More...]

Teotihuacan is an ancient pre-Colombian city in central America, founded two thousand years ago. It’s the home of some of the most iconic Mesoamerican monuments in [...Read More...]

Perched on a cliff at the edge of the world in the remote Orkney Islands, the ancient village of Skara Brae is a picturesque and dramatic sight. Carved into an ancient [...Read More...]

In our episode on the Sphinx Water Erosion Theory, we discussed the theory that the Sphinx was 10,000 years old. This date would require us to completely reorder our sense of [...Read More...]

What can a story from ancient Ireland tell us about the Gauls before Caesar? Maybe a lot. The Hound of Ulster is synonymous with Irish history. But it also draws back the [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! First, here is a link to the Julian-Claudian family tree. Refresh your knowledge of that epic dynasty, or just marvel at how circular that family was. Here [...Read More...]

This is yet another of those episodes where Genn and I are amazed that this stuff actually happened. That applies to most of our episodes, though–we’re basically [...Read More...]

On August 24, 410 AD, Alaric and the Visigoths sacked the city of Rome. Before he sacked it, he starved it. Before that, he went toe to toe with the Roman Empire for fifteen [...Read More...]