Could You Survive Pompeii? A Choose Your Own Adventure Episode
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! You’ve been transported almost 2,000 years into the past, to the streets of Pompeii. It’s a brisk autumn morning, around, oh…10 AM…and all ...
14 Sep 20231h 22min
Great Yu Controls the Waters
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Cultures on every continent have flood myths, and China is no exception. One of China’s founding myths is one about a singular hero, Yu the...
7 Sep 20231h 4min
Atlit Yam: Forgotten City Beneath the Waves
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Off the coast of Israel there is an underwater megalithic stone circle dating back to the 7000s BC – that is perfectly preserved, keeping i...
31 Aug 202358min
Buzzballs and Buboes: The Plague of Justinian (a Drunk Deep Dive)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! This is an episode about a plague that killed up to 100 million people by the time it was done—as many as 60% of its victims. It’s the firs...
24 Aug 20231h 25min
536 AD: A Volcanic Murder Mystery
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! What was the worst year to be alive? Some researchers have a very specific answer to this question: 536 AD. This is a year when the global...
17 Aug 20231h 15min
RE-RELEASE: Nazca Lines: Secrets in the Sand
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Imagine a desert stretching over 1,500 miles along the Peruvian coastline, between the high Andes to the east and the vast Pacific coastlin...
10 Aug 20231h 14min
RE-RELEASE: Teotihuacan: Eat the Rich
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! 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 M...
8 Aug 20231h 36min
In the Time of the Green Sahara
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Deep in the western Sahara—in perhaps one of the driest parts of the driest desert in the world—there are cave paintings that depict people...
3 Aug 20231h 16min
