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The Tel

Sebastian Wetherbee

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An Archaeology podcast featuring interviews with archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and classicists. All united by a love of ancient history and prehistory. Hosted by Sebastian Wetherbee, a professional archaeologist, caver, climber, and antiquarian.
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History, anatomy and physiology, philosophy, psychology, anthropology. The podcast that attempts to resurrect sense and meaning from the dust of a billion factoids. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-history-of-being-human--5806452/support.
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Sengoku Daimyo's Chronicles of Japan is a Japanese history podcast where we will be going through a chronological history of Japan. We will start with prehistory and continue up through the Meiji period. Episodes are released as soon as they are available--working on a monthly release schedule.
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Paleo Bites

Matthew Donald

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Welcome to Paleo Bites, the weekly podcast hosted by Matthew Donald where we make dumb jokes, reference pop culture, derail like crazy, and oh yeah, discuss and rate dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Each episode Matthew and a rotating set of guest co-hosts talk about a different genus of primeval critter, explain basic stats, exchange plenty of banter, barely fact-check, and at the end, rate the creature one out of 65 million for any reason, including but not limited to sexiness, man ...
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FUTURE FOSSILS

Michael Garfield

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Join paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield and an avalanche of amazing guests for deep but irreverent discussions at the edge of the known and knowable: on prehistory and post-humanity and deep time, non-human agency and non-duality, science fiction and self-fulfilling prophecies, complex systems and sustainability (or lack thereof), psychedelics as a form of training for proliferating futures, art and creativity as service and as inquiry. New episodes on a roughly biweekly basis. Get bon ...
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Stone Me

Matthew Magee

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Matthew Magee cycles to Scotland's most beautiful and fascinating neolithic sites to interview experts about what the sites were used for and what life was like 5,000 years ago. These stunning, huge, enduring monuments were built at the exact moment we stopped being hunter gatherers and stayed in one place to farm for the first time. Explore the explosion of art, culture and spirituality that happened as Matthew investigates Scotland's oldest places. Find out more, or support programming wit ...
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Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A ...
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From exploring submerged pre-contact archaeological sites to investigating shipwrecks and maritime landscapes, this channel provides tales from the past and stories from the archaeologists who have discovered some of the world's most cherished remnants of previous cultures.
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This podcast starts at the beginning of Earth's prehistory and works forward through time. Bedrock will explore the first 90% of Earth’s past, a time known as the Precambrian Era. Before humans, before dinosaurs… there was the Precambrian. The Earth was an incredibly alien world, but not a dead one. Along the way, you will build a mental toolkit to see the world like a geologist. You will never look at a mountain, the moon, or pond scum in quite the same way again. Welcome to Bedrock. For tr ...
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Reflecting History

Reflecting History

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Reflecting History is an educational history podcast that explores significant historical events and themes without losing track of the ordinary people involved. Covering a wide variety of topics, it explores the connection between history, psychology, and philosophy.
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Walter Besant was a novelist and historian, and his topographical and historical writings, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century, were probably best known through the detailed 10-volume Survey of London published after his death. This earlier single volume covers, in less depth, the whole period from prehistory until the 19th century. The book appears originally to have been written for boys, and, indeed, the chapters are called "Lessons". However, it is a very readable hi ...
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The Near East - the region known politically as the Middle East - is the home of both a long and eventful history as well as a much longer and fascinating prehistory. Here on Pre History I will cover the story of the Near East as we know it from the archaeological study of what people left behind as hunter-gatherers turned into farmers, as villages turned into cities, and as empires rose and fell.
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Struggling Academics

Struggling Academics

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Struggling Academics is a bi-monthly educational podcast for everyone interested in ideas, intellectual life and academic pursuits. At Struggling Academics, we deliberately venture into areas to which none of the hosts necessarily claim expertise. In each episode Dr. Andrasi (linguist), Dr. Clinnick (archaeologist), Dr. Pedersen (philosopher) & Dr. Vladescu (anthropologist/philologist) will discuss a particular topic with an uplifting and positive twist ranging from singular human experience ...
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unSILOed is a series of interdisciplinary conversations that inspire new ways of thinking about our world. Our goal is to build a community of lifelong learners addicted to curiosity and the pursuit of insight about themselves and the world around them.*unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*
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Food With Benefits

Austin Eats ATL

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Food With Benefits explores and discusses our relationship with food and how it affects more aspects of our lives than we think. To some, food is an act of love. To others, food is something to fear. Join along with your host, Austin Thompson, as we explore people's relationship with food from all walks of life, and peek into history to discover how this relationship has evolved and changed over time. From foraging for berries in prehistory to eating a $25,000 taco in Cabo San Lucas. Oh, and ...
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In 100 pint-sized chapters, The Ceylon Press History of Sri Lanka, makes accessible an engaging account of an island renowned for a history many times larger and more byzantine than that of far bigger nations. From prehistory to the present day, each short chapter makes lucid a period of the island’s history, telling the intricate story of its rulers, people, and progression.
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The great tragedy of climate finance is that those who understand it most have their noses to the grindstone, while those who understand it least have their mouths to the megaphone. Bionic Planet aims to end information asymmetry and fix the public discourse by mainstreaming the REAL debates over Natural Climate (and Biodvesi) Solutions.
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Stone Circles are one of the most enigmatic traces of the people that lives in Britain and Ireland thousands of years ago. But perhaps you have wondered what other types of archaeological sites and evidence we have from this period, what peoples’ lives were like thousands of years ago, or how archaeologists use the things they find to interpret life in the past? If you have, come and join the archaeologists from Project TIME as they embark on a new project to investigate Prehistoric Britain ...
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A podcast about the other side of Watergate. Listen along as we explore the lingering, unresolved mysteries of the most infamous burglary in American history. Episodes released periodically. Original music by Austin Miller.
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The Fright Lab

The Fright Lab

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A podcast about horror movies and terror, The Fright Lab looks deeper into all the things that scare. Join Lucas and Joe as they compare some of the most terrifying moments in film with the horrors of reality, and history. Why do we watch scary movies when the real world is so much more terrifying? Find out on every episode! frightlabpodcast.com
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Chronical History

Xannah Moniq

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Chronical History with Xannah Moniq invites you to explore the fascinating history of mental health, chronic illness, and disabilities through a unique lens. Each episode combines intimate storytelling with a touch of mystery, revealing the often-overlooked aspects of these significant topics. The title, Chronical History, cleverly plays on the words “chronic” and “chronicle,” reflecting both the enduring nature of these conditions and the rich, narrative exploration of their histories. Xann ...
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Greetings and Welcome to History 101, A Podcast where we explore the story of mankind beginning from the first stirrings of abstract thought in our hominid ancestor to the first men to the moon, we try and cover it all in an interesting and bite sized podcast.
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Philosophindia

Tejas Aralere

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Join me on my journey through the world of ancient Indian philosophy! In each podcast, I will try to summarize different topics in Indian philosophy and tell you about the historical events that were occurring on the Indian subcontinent at that time. My goal is to make Indian philosophy accessible to everyone so don't worry if you don't know anything about Indian history or philosophy - just sit back, pay attention, and let me guide you through the world of Indian thought.
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Get Ready for Rome helps the thoughtful traveler prepare to visit the Eternal City by introducing the city’s main monuments and the sometimes acrimonious dialogue they imply. Add value to your visit to Rome by getting to know in advance the ideas and history that stand behind St. Peter’s Basilica, the Colosseum, the Sistine Chapel and other familiar but put poorly understood sites of one of the world’s greatest cities.
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Historically, how were narratives used around race, species, and the beliefs of Western civilization? What have been the contemporary implications for those earlier societal beliefs? Stefanos Geroulanos is the director of the Remarque Institute, a professor of history at New York University, and the author of several books. His latest book is calle…
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This episode we look at the Hakuchi era. Specifically, the implementation of something called the "Equal Fields" system, which seems to be what the court was trying to implement in some of their early Ritsuryo edicts. And then we'll see why this era is the "Asuka" period and not the "Naniwa" period, despite the grand temple to government erected in…
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AI is a fast-growing field full of potential insights, challenges, and ethical implications for its users and the world. How can the people behind the machines explore the ways to use AI and data technology to leverage societal benefits? Juan M. Lavista Ferres is the Corporate Vice President and Chief Data Scientist of the AI for Good Lab at Micros…
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On the release date of their third studio album, Modern Horror, Vision Video guitarist and vocalist Dusty Gannon joins Lucas and Joe for an extended chat. Dusty talks about his love of Horror and much, much more! Dusty Gannon and Vision Video can be found online at https://visionvideoband.com/ Buy a copy of Modern Horror (and other Vision Video mer…
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Subscribe, Rate, & Review Future Fossils on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week on Future Fossils I welcome back Sara Phinn Huntley, a multimedia artist, writer, and researcher who has spent the last two decades exploring the intersection of psychedelics, technology, and philosophy. An intrepid psychonaut and cartographer of hyperspace, he…
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Happy Halloween! Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host/demon lord Morazmolochgallothagon discuss Diabloceratops, a dinosaur with literal devil horns and a ferocious attitude, making it a perfect new monster to enact further suffering upon Matthew’s soul. Mwuahaha. Wait, what? Who’s writing this?! From the Late Cretaceous, this 18-foot centrosaurine…
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Join Xannah Moniq on this fast-paced journey into the ancient world of Hippocrates, where medical texts reveal the earliest theories about disabilities. From the bizarre but groundbreaking humoral theory to the influence of the environment on health, discover how the Father of Medicine tried to explain what caused disabilities and how they were tre…
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How have economic crises throughout history shaped the relationships between nations? Which crises had a hand in wars and major global conflicts? Harold James is a professor of history and international affairs at Princeton University. His recent book, Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization examines major economic upheavals fr…
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In Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study (University Press of Florida, 2024), Nicolas Delsol compares zooarchaeological and material evidence from sites across Mesoamerica and the Caribbean to show how the introduction of cattle, beginning with imports by Spanish colonizers in the 1500s, shaped colonial American…
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With sex and gender becoming such politicized and polarizing issues recently, what’s a common sense approach to sorting through all the information to better understand the issues at hand? How have different struggles for equal rights throughout history shaped and informed these common-sense positions? Doriane Lambelet Coleman is a professor at Duk…
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Guests: Tomer Ullman, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Department of Computing, Imperial College London; Principal Research Scientist, Google DeepMind Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Melanie Mitchell Producer: Katherine Moncure Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano Follow u…
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(image source: Art by Joschua Knüppe) Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Allen Brooks discuss Alpkarakush, a medium-sized predatory dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic at the geographic midpoint of its family. A lot of mid, this guy. Maybe he isn’t that great. He’s mid, this one. From the Mid Jurassic, this 23-foot metriacanthosaurid was very clos…
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In this riveting episode of “Chronical History,” join Xannah Moniq as she delves into the harsh and fascinating world of ancient Sparta. Discover how the Spartan commitment to creating the ultimate warriors extended to a brutal practice of infant exposure, where disabled or deemed unfit babies were left to die. Explore the philosophical and societa…
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As we get better and better at training machines to emulate humans, are there certain aspects of human intelligence that artificial intelligence will never be able to copy? Neil D. Lawrence is a professor of machine learning at the University of Cambridge. His new book, The Atomic Human: What Makes Us Unique in the Age of AI explores the meaning of…
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The story of the Aztec Empire is a story unlike any other. From it's origins as a nomadic underdog, to it's ascendance at the rich and powerful city of Tenochtitlan, to it's clash of civilizations with the mighty Spanish Empire, this is a historical story that will never happen again. If you think you know the story, think again. For hundreds of ye…
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So the year 649 was so bad that they went and changed the whole calendar to forget about it! In 650 a white pheasant is brought to the court, and they sieze on that as a chance to rename the era from Taika to Hakuchi. That should make things better, right? This episode we talk about this event--their reasoning, as well as what is recorded as having…
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(image source: https://dinosauralive.fandom.com/wiki/Gillicus) Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Natasha Krech discuss Gillicus, a fish with gills… you know, like literally all fish. You ain’t special, Gillicus. We see you for who you are. From the Late Cretaceous, this 6-foot ichthyodectiform is most famous for the “fish-within-a-fish” skeleto…
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In this episode of “Chronical History,” host Xannah Moniq dives into the complex and often contradictory views on disabilities in ancient Greece. Explore how philosophers like Plato and Aristotle shaped societal attitudes, advocating for both exclusion and inclusion. From the myths of Hephaestus to the personal stories of figures like Epictetus, di…
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The long-held dominant narrative about evolution is that it works like a tree. But as science has advanced in the last century, the idea of a family tree might not tell the full story anymore. Evolutionary biologist David P. Mindell is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and the author of The Network of Life: A New View…
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The Indus Valley Civilization and the Minoan Civilization were both highly advanced, highly influential nations of the ancient world, yet our knowledge of them is obscured by our inability to decipher their writing systems (Indus Valley Script and Linear A). Hear Lance Fever Myers, William Gold, and L.B. Deyo struggle to draw deep knowledge from li…
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It’s time to visit Springwood and head to Camp Crystal Lake with our discussion of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. The Fright Lab Podcast can always be found at https://www.thefrightlab.com and everywhere you listen to podcasts! Subscribe to RSS - https://feed.podbean.com/frightlabpodcast/feed.xml Join the conversation on Discord - h…
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We spend some time inside till recently the most exquisite piece of neolithic architecture in Scotland, Maeshowe in Orkney, and compare its construction to a nearby more recently-found building, and hear from Mark Edmonds about what might have happened in this magnificent structure. More information in the programme notes on the Stone Me website. A…
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In Episode 112 of Bionic Planet, titled "Fantasy Football and Dynamic Baselines: New Tools for Impact Assessment," we unpack the often misunderstood concept of dynamic baselines and its origin in synthetic controls, using fantasy football as an analogy. The episode begins with a clear and relatively simple explanation of dynamic baselines, which ha…
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This week we speak to multidisciplinary independent researcher William Sarill, whose life has traced a high-dimensional curve through biochemistry, art restoration, physics, and esotericism (and I’m stopping the list here but it goes on). Bill is one of the only people I know who has the scientific chops to understand and explain how to possibly un…
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When COVID-19 hit, many predictions were made about how the global pandemic would impact the macroeconomy. Some of those predictions were accurate, some of them turned out to be false alarms. But when business leaders need to make strategic decisions with macroeconomic forecasts in mind, how do they tell the truth from the doomsaying? Philipp Carls…
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Guests: Evelina Fedorenko, Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT Steve Piantadosi, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Head of Computation and Language Lab, UC Berkeley Gary Lupyan, Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Hosts: Abha E…
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(image source: https://dinosaurpictures.org/Udanoceratops-pictures) Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Laura Owsley discuss Udanoceratops, a fat ugly beast with a really big head. Between this, last week’s Anteosaurus, and the Eryops episode a bit ago, there seems to be a recurring theme of creatures here. See you at the Cotylorhynchus episode w…
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In this episode of “Chronical History,” host Xannah Moniq explores how disabilities were perceived in ancient Hindu texts through the lens of karma and reincarnation. Journey through the sacred Vedas, epics like the Mahabharata and Ramayana, and the wisdom of the Puranas to uncover stories of individuals whose physical differences were seen as part…
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How is technology disrupting on-the-job learning? What do we lose from outsourcing the work of novices to technological tools, and what do we gain? How do some surgical students make surprising decisions about where to do their residencies? Matt Beane is an assistant professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.…
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Matthew untangles a decades-long controversy with an archeaologist who has the most incredibly life-long association with the site of these two neolithic timber halls. It's just as well Ian Ralston's story is so good because there's almost nothing to see at the site itself! 3'34 Introduction 5'00 What are we seeing at Doon Hill? 9'25 It's huge! One…
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How important is creative thinking and the fusion of business and art in today's ever-evolving business landscape? What are the challenges of navigating uncharted futures with the role of AI? Amy Whitaker teaches Arts Administration at New York University and is also the author of three books, including Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space…
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(image source: https://www.deviantart.com/willemsvdmerwe/art/Anteosaurus-340867141) Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Stephen Curro discuss Anteosaurus, a really big stem mammal that ate and chomped and crawled and stomped all over. At least, I assume it did. We don’t really know, it could have moved exclusively via unicycle. From the Late Perm…
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In this episode of Chronical History host Xannah Moniq explores the fascinating ways disability was viewed and depicted in ancient Egypt. Through the stories of high-ranking officials like Seneb, gods like Ptah and Bes, and everyday depictions in tomb art, discover how physical differences were not just acknowledged but often revered. We dive into …
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Much of the field of economics derives its theories from a subset of Adam Smith’s philosophy found in the Wealth of Nations. But are economists overlooking other parts of Adam Smith’s teachings that could explain more about human behavior and economics? Nobel-prize winning economist Vernon L. Smith is an emeritus professor of economics and law at C…
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This bonus episode is the first episode of a nine part podcast series on the Netflix show “Arcane.” I recap season 1 of the show and delve into the history, psychology, and philosophy underpinning the story-discussing why it is relevant for the real world problems that we all face. In Episode 1, we introduce some of the characters and their overarc…
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Egypt is revered as the home of the famous Desert Ascetics, who first embraced a monastic life and established homosocial communities on the borders of their urban centres in the Nile Valley. Regarded as angels and warriors, the wisdom of the Desert Ascetics formed part of the oral and literary tradition of wonder-working saints whose commitment to…
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Matthew travels to suburban Fife to see one of Britain's most important henges sitting in the middle of a big housing estate's roundabout. Was the henge there to keep people controlled, or to keep spirits and malevolence trapped inside? And did the neolithic people build eerie fake woodlands from real trees out of guilt? More info and photos of som…
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From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeological journey, William T. Taylor explores how momentous events in the story of humans and horses helped create the world we live in today. Tracing the horse's origins and spread from the western Eurasian steppes to the i…
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