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    The Plain of Jars: An Ancient Asian Mystery
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    How do thousands of massive, two-meter-tall stone jars end up scattered across the remote mountains of Laos? And more importantly, what were they used for?Deep in a landscape still shadowed by unexplo...
    How do thousands of massive, two-meter-tall stone ...
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    The Year of Five Emperors
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    How do you celebrate the New Year in ancient Rome? With an assassination and a bloody free-for-all for the imperial throne, of course.Following the murder of the gladiator emperor Commodus on New Year...
    How do you celebrate the New Year in ancient Rome?...
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    Britain's First Homo Sapiens
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    What was it like to share Britain with Neanderthals and cave hyenas 40,000 years ago?Tristan Hughes ventures deep underground to Kents Cavern, a glittering labyrinth affectionately known as Britain’s ...
    What was it like to share Britain with Neanderthal...
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    The Mycenaeans: Was Agamemnon Real?
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    They built the great fortresses of the Bronze Age, developed a mysterious writing system and, according to Homer, led the Greek assault on Troy. But how much of the legend is rooted in reality? Was Ag...
    They built the great fortresses of the Bronze Age,...
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    Easter Island
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    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 tha...
    How do you make a giant stone statue walk? On one ...
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    Bronze Age Syria: Cradle of Cities
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    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 Mediterranea...
    Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Hittites usually domina...
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    Origins of Constantinople
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    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.Tristan Hu...
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    The Ninth Legion: Did They Disappear?
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    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?Tristan Hughes is join...
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    Viking Origins: The Nordic Iron Age
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    Two thousand years ago, centuries before the Vikings, there was another Scandinavia. An Iron Age world.Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen to uncover the deep roots of the seafaring No...
    Two thousand years ago, centuries before the Vikin...
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    Caratacus: King of the Britons
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    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.Tristan Hughes...
    Before Boudicca, another British leader brought th...
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    Ancient Antarctica
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    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 t...
    The frozen continent of Antarctica was once a land...
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    Prehistoric Penguins
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    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 a...
    When the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, one rem...
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    Life and Death in Ancient Babylon
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    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 street...
    Babylon was one of the greatest cities of the anci...
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    The Gospels: Are They Historical?
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    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...
    How much can we really know about the historical J...
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    Maya Hieroglyphs Decoded
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    Forget everything you thought you knew about the ancient Maya. Cracking their mysterious hieroglyphs didn't just reveal boring calendars, it exposed a cutthroat, Game of Thrones-style world of rival s...
    Forget everything you thought you knew about the a...
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    Human Sacrifice in Ancient Britain
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    WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of graphic violence from the start.When we picture human sacrifice in ancient Britain, the iconic, flaming Wicker Man often comes to mind. But how much of t...
    WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of gra...
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    Ice Age America: The Clovis Culture
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    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 bea...
    Before the mammoths disappeared, people hunted the...
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    The First Punic War
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    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 supremac...
    How did the Romans ambush a massive Carthaginian f...
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    Iron Age Ireland
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    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.Tristan...
    How much of Iron Age Ireland is myth, and how much...
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    Human Origins: Did We Begin in Africa?
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    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...
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    Egypt's Lost Cities
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    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 civilisatio...
    What happens when an entire city disappears? Benea...
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    Roman Emperor Augustus and His Trusted General
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    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 consciousl...
    Augustus was Rome's first Emperor. But who made hi...
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    The Vandals
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    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?In this epi...
    The Vandals have gone down in history as the barba...
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    Terror Birds
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    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...
    What kind of predator needs no teeth to terrify it...
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    The Maya Ballgame
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    A rubber ball. A stone court. And a sport where the stakes could be life and death.For more than 2,000 years, Mesoamerican peoples played a remarkable ballgame that became far more than entertainment;...
    A rubber ball. A stone court. And a sport where th...
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    How Slavery Built the Roman Empire
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    Was the Roman Empire really made by conquest? Or was it powered by something much darker?For centuries, millions of enslaved people sacrificed their lives and their labour on the altar of Roman progre...
    Was the Roman Empire really made by conquest? Or w...
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    Romulus & Remus
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    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, ki...
    The story of Romulus and Remus is one of the most ...
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    Shapur I: Rome's Greatest Enemy?
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    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...
    Few rulers humbled Rome quite like Shapur I. A Kin...
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    Scotland's First Warriors
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    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 revea...
    Three thousand years ago, prehistoric Scotland was...
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    The Catiline Conspiracy
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    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, ac...
    In 63 BC, Rome faced a conspiracy that threatened ...
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    Alexander the Great's Mad Scientist
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    WARNING: graphic descriptions of violence and warfareMeet Diades, Alexander the Great’s overlooked military engineer, the man who made the impossible siege of Tyre happen.Tristan Hughes and Professor ...
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    Hollywood’s Odyssey: The Historians' Verdict
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    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 bri...
    Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film Odyssey bring...
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    The First New Zealanders
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    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?Tristan Hughes and Dr Richard Walter tell the story of East Polynesi...
    What if the first New Zealanders crossed an ocean,...
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    Odyssey | Sea of Monsters & Slaughter of the Suitors
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    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, vengea...
    When Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, his homec...
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    Caral: Oldest City in the Americas?
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    Long before the age of the Inca and Maya, a remarkable city once flourished on the coast of modern Peru. Founded more than five thousand years ago, the sacred city of Caral is home to monumental pyram...
    Long before the age of the Inca and Maya, a remark...
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    Odyssey | Cyclops, Circe and Calypso
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    What if the world’s most famous homecoming was really a nightmare of monsters, gods, and one very stubborn king trying to get back to Ithaca?In our new series Tristan Hughes and classicist Dr. Emily H...
    What if the world’s most famous homecoming was rea...
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    Egypt's Book of the Dead
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    For over a thousand years, the Book of the Dead guided ancient Egyptians through the afterlife. Filled with powerful spells these remarkable texts were designed to help the dead overcome the dangers o...
    For over a thousand years, the Book of the Dead gu...
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    The Trojan War
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    The story of Achilles, Odysseus and the siege of Troy has captivated audiences for millennia, but behind the legends lies a deeper mystery. Was this epic war a myth, a memory of a real Bronze Age conf...
    The story of Achilles, Odysseus and the siege of T...
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    The Flood Myth
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    Thousands of years before the story of Noah and the Ark, people in ancient Mesopotamia were already telling tales of a devastating divine flood. Written into the Epic of Atrahasis, this ancient story ...
    Thousands of years before the story of Noah and th...
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    Delphi: Centre of the Ancient World
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    For more than a thousand years, Delphi was considered a cultural centre of the ancient world. Every year a throng of pilgrims climbed the slopes of Mount Parnassus to seek the words of Apollo through ...
    For more than a thousand years, Delphi was conside...
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    Stonehenge with Ken Follett
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    What if the secrets of Stonehenge lie not just in the stones, but in the people who hauled them there?Tristan Hughes sits down with best-selling novelist Ken Follett to uncover and imagine the lives o...
    What if the secrets of Stonehenge lie not just in ...
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    The Library of Alexandria
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    The Library of Alexandria was one of the most important and most celebrated buildings of the ancient Mediterranean. It was a great hub of learning and literature and made Alexandria one of the ancient...
    The Library of Alexandria was one of the most impo...
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    Boudica and the Iceni
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    In 60 AD Roman Britain was very nearly brought to the brink. Cities burned, authority crumbled, and for a brief moment one woman challenged the might of the Roman Empire. Her name was Boudica.Today, T...
    In 60 AD Roman Britain was very nearly brought to ...
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    The Cambrian Explosion: When Life Began?
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    538 million years ago, life on Earth changed forever. In an evolutionary burst known as the Cambrian Explosion, complex animals rapidly appeared in the oceans, laying the foundations for almost every ...
    538 million years ago, life on Earth changed forev...
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    The Pharisees
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    The Pharisees are one of the most familiar names in the ancient world, but are they also one of the most misunderstood?Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Helen Bond to step back into first-century Judea, ...
    The Pharisees are one of the most familiar names i...
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    The Rosetta Stone
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    In July 1799, French soldiers unearthed a stone that would transform our understanding of the ancient world. Discovered in a fort at Rashid, the Rosetta Stone became the key to deciphering Egypt’s lon...
    In July 1799, French soldiers unearthed a stone th...
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    Neanderthal Art
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    Fifty thousand years ago, Neanderthal artists in Ice Age Europe painted symbols and handprints deep inside caves, leaving behind some of the oldest known art on the continent. These discoveries are tr...
    Fifty thousand years ago, Neanderthal artists in I...
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    Spartacus
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    In 73 BC, a gladiator escaped slavery and launched a rebellion that shook the Roman Republic to its core. His name was Spartacus, and his uprising became one of the greatest threats Rome had ever face...
    In 73 BC, a gladiator escaped slavery and launched...
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    The Fall of Hadrian's Wall
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    When the Romans left Britain in the early 5th century AD, Hadrian’s Wall did not simply collapse into ruin. Its forts and ramparts endured, becoming strongholds for the communities who continued to li...
    When the Romans left Britain in the early 5th cent...
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    Iron Age Britain
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    What if Iron Age Britain was never a land of barbarians at all, but a world of skilled farmers, powerful women, trade, ritual, and spectacle? Tristan Hughes is joined by Professor Tom Moore to reveal ...
    What if Iron Age Britain was never a land of barba...
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