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S02E08 - "Rome: Fall or Pushed?"
Diffusé le Apr 15, 2025, 9:00 PM
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Mary Magdalene: First Apostle
The story of Mary Magdalene, who travelled with Jesus as one of his followers, witnessed Christ's crucifixion and the first witness to the Resurrection. She is known in some Christian traditions as the 'apostle to the apostles'.
Mar 4, 2025
60 min
Tutankhamun: Lifting the Curse
Lifting curses apparently linked to the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, claimed to cause bad luck, illness or death.
Apr 1, 2025
70 min
The Incas: A Sudden Fall
How invasion, civil war and disease all had a part to play in the relatively speedy downfall of the great Inca empire in Peru in the 16th century.
Mar 11, 2025
70 min
Noah's Ark: The Endless Quest
Dr Fern Riddell and Dr Karen Bellinger examine the facts regarding Noah's Ark, the existence of which is one of the greatest mysteries of the Bible. According to the religious text, the great ship that rescued mankind from an unfathomable flood rests somewhere in the dangerous and inaccessible snow-frozen caps of the Ararat Mountains. So, did Noah exist, what was the deluge the vessel's launch and what are the real truths behind the biblical telling of the story?
Mar 11, 2025
60 min
Ramses II: The Greatest Pharaoh
The life and times of King Ramses II, who oversaw the construction of more monuments and sired more children than any other Egyptian king.
Mar 18, 2025
70 min
The Ten Plagues: A Greek Curse?
The 10 plagues of Egypt, which saw water turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the killing of firstborn children. As detailed in the Bible, they were sent by God to convince Pharaoh to free the Israelites.
Mar 25, 2025
70 min
El Dorado: Gold, Guns & Greed
Dr Fern Riddell and Dr Karen Bellinger examine the historic belief by some Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries that somewhere in the New World is a place of immense wealth known as El Dorado. Many explorers were led on fruitless treks into the rainforests and mountains of South America in search of this lost city of gold.
Apr 8, 2025
70 min
Rome: Fall or Pushed?
Dr Fern Riddell and Dr Karen Bellinger examine the reasons for the apparent rapid collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, specifically from 476AD. Did it fall, or was it pushed?
Apr 15, 2025
70 min
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