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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...
    The story of human origins is often imagined as a ...
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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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    Prehistoric Greenland
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    What can a frozen island reveal about the people who thrived there for thousands of years? Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr. Asta Mønsted to explore prehistoric Greenland through astonishing archaeology...
    What can a frozen island reveal about the people w...
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    The Other Humans: Why We Survived?
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    For most of human history, we were not alone. Human evolution was shaped by multiple human species living side by side, from Neanderthals in Europe to Denisovans in Asia, before all but one disappeare...
    For most of human history, we were not alone. Huma...
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    What If Alexander Fought Rome?
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    Rome vs Alexander. It's a counterfactual of suitably epic proportions, fit for movie theatres and sprawling strategy video games. What would've happen had the great Macedonian general not perished in ...
    Rome vs Alexander. It's a counterfactual of suitab...
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    The Real Armageddon
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    Armageddon is more than just a biblical prophecy hailing the end of days. It is a real place: Megiddo, an ancient city that for thousands of years stood at the crossroads of empires, trade routes and ...
    Armageddon is more than just a biblical prophecy h...
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    Ancient China: The Warring States
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    How did ancient China plunge into 261 years of chaos, and how did that turmoil forge an empire?Tristan Hughes is joined by Professor Andrew Seth Meyer to explore the Warring States period, from collap...
    How did ancient China plunge into 261 years of cha...
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    The Prehistoric Plague
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    The first ever outbreak of 'plague' - Yersinia Pestis, the most feared disease in human history - was long thought to be the Plague of Justinian in 541 AD. But new studies of ancient DNA have revealed...
    The first ever outbreak of 'plague' - Yersinia Pes...
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    The Persian Gulf
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    Near the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most vital commercial chokepoints, lies an ancient trade route that powered civilisation 4,000 years ago: the Persian Gulf - where goods and ideas flowed ...
    Near the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most...
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    The Last Days of Pompeii
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    In 79 AD, life in Pompeii unfolded beneath the shadow of a tremoring Mount Vesuvius. Streets bustled, businesses thrived, and merchants built fortunes, unaware disaster was hours away. But what happen...
    In 79 AD, life in Pompeii unfolded beneath the sha...
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    The First Tools
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    What if the first technology was just a stone?Tristan Hughes and Dr. Emma Finestone, - Curator and the Robert J. and Linnet E. Fritz Endowed Chair of Humans Origins at Cleveland Museum of Natural Hist...
    What if the first technology was just a stone?Tris...
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    Athens vs Persia: The Legend of Themistocles
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    A legend of the great Greek city of Athens, Themistocles rose from obscurity to save ancient Greece and helped shape one of the greatest naval powers in history. Yet his story ends in exile, condemned...
    A legend of the great Greek city of Athens, Themis...
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    The Hittites
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    What made the Hittites one of the great Bronze Age powers, and how did their empire survive on war, diplomacy and faith? Tristan Hughes is joined by Professor Elena Devecchi to uncover ancient royal i...
    What made the Hittites one of the great Bronze Age...
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    Homo Sapiens vs Neanderthals
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    Tristan Hughes is joined by Ella Al-Shamahi, paleoanthropologist and presenter of the hit BBC series Human, to explore what interactions between early Homo sapiens and Neanderthals may have been like,...
    Tristan Hughes is joined by Ella Al-Shamahi, paleo...
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    The Romans and China
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    How did Roman silver travel from Egypt to China across monsoon seas, pirate waters, and bustling ports? Tristan Hughes is joined by legendary archaeologist Sir Barry Cunliffe for a dramatic journey th...
    How did Roman silver travel from Egypt to China ac...
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