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Friend of the Show, TV presenter, author extraordinaire, and historian Dan Jones returns to Tides to
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The discovery of 21,000-23,000-year-old human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico
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The Late Bronze Age was a remarkable time in the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. An interco
It’s not an exaggeration to say that the whole of human history can be divided into two parts: befor
From mainland Greece to Minoan Crete and the famous city of Troy, what made the Aegean Sea one of th
Bestselling author and history podcaster extraordinaire Mike Duncan returns to Tides to talk about h
More than 4,000 years ago, a ruler came to power in the fractious, war-torn lands of Mesopotamia. He
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Friend of the Show Dr. Keith Pluymers returns to tell us about how people thought about and fought o
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