The Hittite-Homer Connection? w/ Mary Bachvarova For thousands of years, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were the oldest epic stories that Europeans know of. But is it possible that Homer was, in turn, influenced by the stories of other civilizations to the east of Greece?
Bronze Age Apocalypse 1177 BC w/ Eric H. Cline Most of the civilizations of the late bronze age were mysteriously destroyed at around the same time in the 12th century BC. Archaeologists have been debating what caused this destruction for over a century...
Tomb Raiders, Codebreakers and the Discovery of Antiquity How do we know so much about the ancient world? This episode explores four astonishing archaeological discoveries that extended our knowledge of history back into the mythical past...
