Join us as we pull back the curtain on a tantalizing time when the Sahara was a wetland paradise.

Crater Lake is haunted. That haunting goes back 7,700 years.

This is a story about a natural disaster that happened—to mammoths. Let’s dig in.

By some accounts, Doggerland was drowning from the day it was born. But its final end came in a single, cataclysmic day.

The Ten Plagues of Egypt may be based on an ancient psychic trauma. Join us as we try to get to the bottom of it.

This week, historian and author Barry Strauss takes us back to the beach at Actium to deconstruct how it all went wrong for Marc Antony and Cleopatra.

The slow-motion train wreck continues. Herod makes increasingly ill-advised decisions as schemes and intrigue simmer around him. Meanwhile, Cleopatra influences things from afar.

This is the first in a two-episode series about two colossal personalities from the ancient world--and what happened when their interests collided.

After the disaster at Actium, Marc Antony's entire army--100,000 strong--surrendered to Octavian. Marc Antony and Cleopatra fled to Alexandria to negotiate the terms of their defeat. The reckoning was coming.

As Marc Antony and Cleopatra lived and loved in Alexandria, Octavian whipped up a toxic garbage fire of racism, misogyny, and xenophobia in Rome--and then declared war. Not against Marc Antony, but against Cleopatra.

In this episode, debut author Maya Deane methodically strips away the lenses of the Victorian era, Classical Greece, and the modern day to reveal an Illiad that’s older and darker and weirder than any of us could ever have imagined.

Soon Marc Antony would be called to war—and face the biggest battlefield test of his career.

When Cleopatra and Marc Antony met by the River Tarsus, Antony was smitten. And when Cleopatra went back to Alexandria, he forgot about invading Parthia and followed her home.

Shakespeare wrote about them. Hollywood glamorized them. For thousands of years, they've come down to us as the ultimate star-crossed lovers: the Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra, and the Roman commander Marc Antony.

Outnumbered five to one in a city full of ancient wonders, Cleopatra and Caesar spent the next ten months barricaded in a luxurious palace, fighting a deadly urban war for Cleopatra's throne and both of their survival.

In this episode, we take you from the cutthroat intrigue of the Ptolemaic court to the volatile streets of Alexandria—and from Cleopatra’s early life to the events that led her to take an extreme gamble and team up with the man who’d just conquered Rome.

We'll be back July 6 with a brand-new season--one that's all about ancient history and returns to our roots.

Let's talk about Lord of the Rings, baby!

Join us for a conversation all about female goddesses, heroines, and monsters of Greek mythology--and where to find romance in surprising places.

Just who are the classics for, anyway?

Join us as we get acquainted with the women of the Mabinogion.

This week, we delve deeper into the legend of Atalanta, with bestselling author Jennifer Saint as our guide.

Join us as we take a deep dive into the story of Atalanta: a gender rebel and sexually liberated heroine who—maybe—peels back the curtain on what life was like for women on the margins of classical Greece.

Join us as we talk about the fearsome women of Caribbean lore and the Bible—including everybody’s favorite patriarchy-busting rebel, Lilith.

Long ignored by historians, these documents provide us with what is perhaps the most authentic history of the Aztec people in their own voice.