ancient history

Become a Patron! Sources for this episode include: Evan Osnos: Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before it Breaks Democracy? The New Yorker George Liapis: Is Zuckerberg Just a [...Read More...]

Have you noticed that our tech overlords cannot be normal about the Roman Empire? Elon Musk has approximately 14 known children, which he refers to as his “Legion.” Mark [...Read More...]

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...]