# ancient world (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ancient world. Page: Feed: --- ## [Augustus and Propaganda](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/augustus-and-propaganda) _2026-08-21 · Sean · Classical Wisdom_ How Rome’s First Emperor Ruled ## [Will There Be “Crazy” People?](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/will-there-be-crazy-people-965) _2026-08-20 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ A Symposium on the Sea... ## [The Parthenon Marbles: A Counterpoint](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/the-parthenon-marbles-a-counterpoint) _2026-08-19 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ What Is the Best Way to Change Someone's Mind? Discussing the controversy of Lord Elgin, Lord Byron and the fate of Greece's famed artifacts... ## [DNA Is Finally Cracking One of the Arctic’s Oldest Unsolved Mysteries](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/franklin-expedition-dna) _2026-08-19 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ New genetic identifications are confirming what Inuit witnesses said all along, and what Victorian Britain refused to believe. ## [Is Eating Meat Moral?](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/is-eating-meat-moral-a0d) _2026-08-17 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ Carnivores vs Vegans: What is better? ## [Was JFK’s Assassination a Conspiracy?](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/was-the-jfk-assassination-a-conspiracy) _2026-08-17 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ The U.S. government has released thousands of CIA documents on the JFK assassination and is still holding some back. Why? This week on Ask History. ## [Weekly Wisdom Quiz](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/weekly-wisdom-quiz-b26) _2026-08-16 · Sean · Classical Wisdom_ Magic & Mysteries in the Ancient World ## [The Volcano That May Have Triggered Egypt’s Plagues](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/thera-eruption-exodus-plagues) _2026-08-14 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ Sometime around 1600 BCE, a volcanic island in the southern Aegean exploded with a force that ranks among the largest eruptions in the last 10,000 years. The island was Thera, now known as Santorini ## [Did Odysseus Found Rome?](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/did-odysseus-found-rome) _2026-08-14 · Sean · Classical Wisdom_ The Mysterious Proto-Romans ## [One Last Invitation](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/one-last-invitation) _2026-08-13 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ Your 24-Hour Head Start - Enjoy our exclusive Members Only reservation for our 2027 Journey with Professor Angie Hobbs ## [Your 24/7 AI Media Buyer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/iQAb23LCte2l) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Finds placement, geo, and funnel leaks and proposes fixes you approve ## [Can We Return to an Enchanted World?](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/can-we-return-to-an-enchanted-world) _2026-08-13 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ Has modern life become too disenchanted? Brown University professor Michael Satlow explores what we've gained, and perhaps lost, since the ancient world. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211031482/07e844b01355d33843cfde072cdbf9fb.mp3) ## [The Comet That May Have Destroyed a Village and Nearly Triggered an Ice Age](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/abu-hureyra-comet) _2026-08-12 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ Evidence of a cosmic airburst at one of the world’s oldest farming villages has split scientists for almost twenty years. ## [Did the Government Cover Up the Roswell UFO Crash?](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/did-the-government-cover-up-the-roswell-ufo-crash) _2026-08-11 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ In the summer of 1947, something came down on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. ## [One Word. Six Clues. Can You Guess It?](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/one-word-six-clues-can-you-guess) _2026-08-10 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ The Ancient Word Challenge ## [How Greek Myths & Maths Shaped the World](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/how-greek-myths-and-maths-shaped) _2026-08-09 · Sean · Classical Wisdom_ The Weekly Wisdom Quiz ## [The Birth of the Gods](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/the-birth-of-the-gods) _2026-08-07 · Sean · Classical Wisdom_ Greek Myth's Origin Story ## [The Viking Who Traveled Further East Than Any Explorer Before Columbus](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/viking-eastern-exploration) _2026-08-07 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ When people think about Viking exploration, they think west. Leif Erikson reaching North America. The settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows. The longships pushing across the North Atlantic into territory no European had reached before. ## [Are You Ready for LifeMaxxing?](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/are-you-ready-for-lifemaxxing) _2026-08-06 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ Why watch history... when you can sail through it? Journey on the Blue Zephyr this April. ## [Golden Thigh](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/golden-thigh) _2026-08-05 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ The Strange World of Pythagoras ## [The Trojan War Was Real, Just Not the Way Homer Told It](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/trojan-war-archaeology) _2026-08-05 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ Heinrich Schliemann wanted Troy so badly that he almost destroyed it. When he arrived at Hisarlik in 1871 with a crew of workmen and a head full of Homer, he dug with an enthusiasm that any modern archaeologist would call criminal. ## [Know before it drops (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/F8lDNthUrB96) _2026-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a show, artist, genre or rocket and get notified before release ## [Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey": I Can't Believe I'm Defending Homer](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-i) _2026-08-04 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ \*the videos provided in this post are for entertainment only, feel free to watch them, or simply enjoy the read. ## [Did NASA Fake the Moon Landing?](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/did-nasa-fake-the-moon-landing) _2026-08-03 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong steps onto the Moon. Roughly 600 million people watch it live, about one in five humans alive at the time. ## [The Ancient Board Game That Predates Chess by 2,000 Years](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/royal-game-of-ur) _2026-07-31 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ In 1926, Leonard Woolley was excavating the Royal Cemetery of Ur in what is now southern Iraq when his team uncovered something that had no obvious parallel in the ancient world. ## [The Viking Myth: How 19th Century Romantics Invented the Horned Helmet and Everything Else](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/viking-myth-horned-helmet) _2026-07-29 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ No Viking warrior ever wore a horned helmet in battle. The image was invented by a Swedish illustrator in 1820 and popularized by a Wagner opera costume designer in 1876. The Viking identity most people carry fierce pagan warriors, racially pure northerners is almost entirely a 19th century nationalist construction. The most famous Viking ship burial ever found contains two women. The actual… ## [What Are the Nazca Lines and Why Were They Made?](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/why-were-the-nazca-lines-made) _2026-07-27 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ Etched into the desert of southern Peru, the Nazca Lines cover around 450 square kilometers and include hundreds of straight lines, geometric shapes, and large animal figures: a hummingbird, a spider, a condor, a monkey with a curled tail. ## [Eileithyia - Giving Birth in Caves \[S.2 Ep. 216\]](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/eileithyia-giving-birth-in-caves) _2026-07-25 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ In this episode, we delve into the intriguing world of the Goddess Eileithyia of Crete. ## [The Plague of Justinian: The Pandemic That Ended the Ancient World](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/plague-of-justinian) _2026-07-24 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ In 541 CE, bubonic plague arrived at an Egyptian port and spread across the known world. It killed perhaps a quarter of the Byzantine Empire’s population, ended Justinian’s reconquest of Rome, and created the conditions for the Arab conquests a century later. Ancient DNA confirmed the pathogen in 2013. This is the pandemic that built the medieval world. ## [Saudi Arabia’s Hegra: The Ancient City That Outlasted Every Conqueror Until the Tourists Arrived](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/hegra-saudi-arabia) _2026-07-24 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ Petra’s twin city survived two thousand years almost untouched, and not just because it was remote. ## [The Real Nazca Lines: What Mainstream Archaeology Won’t Commit To](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/nazca-lines) _2026-07-22 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ Everyone has heard of the Nazca Lines. Most people know the alien explanation is nonsense. But the real academic debate three competing theories, none of them fully supported by the evidence is far more interesting than the alternative history crowd wants you to know. The truth is messier, and better. ## [Who Was Cleopatra?](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/who-was-cleopatra) _2026-07-20 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ Most of what people know about Cleopatra came from her enemies. ## [International money transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/g6qOWEF6y8gt) _2026-07-20 · **Sponsored**_ Send money to other countries and manage multi‑currency balances online. ## [Retelling Is Not the Same as Reinvention](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/retelling-is-not-the-same-as-reinvention) _2026-07-17 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ A Historian's Reflections Before Watching Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey ## [Stonehenge’s Bones: The Burial Site That Rewrites What We Thought We Knew](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/stonehenge) _2026-07-17 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ New isotope analysis of human remains at Stonehenge shows that many of the people buried there in its earliest phase came from Wales the same place as the bluestones. Some of them may have been descendants of the communities that quarried and transported the stones 300 kilometers to Salisbury Plain. The stones and the dead may have been making the same journey. Stonehenge’s primary function,… ## [The Ethics of Wearing the Ancient Dead](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/the-ethics-of-wearing-the-ancient) _2026-07-16 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ What Zendaya's earrings reveal about provenance, private collections, and our relationship with the ancient past. ## [Who Built Gobekli Tepe and Why Did They Bury It?](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/gobekli-tepe) _2026-07-15 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ Gobekli Tepe was built 12,000 years ago at least 1,000 years before the first evidence of agriculture anywhere in the world. It required coordinating hundreds of workers, quarrying 20-ton limestone pillars, and sustaining organized construction over generations. The people who built it were hunter gatherers. Then they deliberately buried the entire site. This is one of archaeology’s most important… ## [Behind the Scenes: Artemis at Sardis](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/behind-the-scenes-artemis-at-sardis) _2026-07-14 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ Field Archives ## [What Happened to the Maya Civilization?](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-the-maya-civilization) _2026-07-13 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ Between 800 and 1000 AD, dozens of major Maya cities in the southern lowlands went quiet. ## [Demeter and Persephone - Angry Mothers, Stolen Daughters](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/demeter-and-persephone-angry-mothers) _2026-07-11 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ In this episode, we dive deep into the timeless myth of Demeter and Persephone, one of the most compelling stories from the ancient world. ## [Italian Teenagers Found a 1,800-Year-Old Roman Villa Under Their School Gym](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/roman-school-villa) _2026-07-10 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ Rome keeps hiding its history in plain sight, and it keeps taking curious teenagers to find it. ## [What Remains in Clay: Women, Presence, and Power in Ancient Mesopotamia](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/what-remains-in-clay-women-presence) _2026-07-09 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ Badly Labelled Artifacts Series ## [The Lost Library of Alexandria: Did It Actually Burn, or Was That a Myth?](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/library-of-alexandria) _2026-07-08 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ The Library of Alexandria did not burn in one catastrophic fire. Caesar probably destroyed a warehouse, not the library. The Arab general who supposedly burned it centuries later is almost certainly a fabrication. What actually happened a slow institutional decline across 300 years is less dramatic but more disturbing. Most ancient knowledge was not destroyed. It was simply never copied again. ## [Mapping Artemis, Exploring Demeter](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/mapping-artemis-exploring-demeter) _2026-07-07 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ The Artemis Dispatch - A Quarterly Newsletter ## [Who Built Stonehenge and Why?](https://allthathistory.substack.com/p/who-built-stonehenge-and-why) _2026-07-06 · AllThatHistory · AllThatHistory Weekly_ Construction at Stonehenge didn’t happen all at once. ## [The Holy Grail – Unraveling the Mystery of the Ultimate Relic](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/the-holy-grail-unraveling-the-mystery) _2026-07-04 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ The search for the Holy Grail has captivated the world for over 1,000 years, shrouded in secrecy, mystery, and legendary tales. ## [Looking for Artemis in Zeus' Sanctuary](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/looking-for-artemis-in-zeus-sanctuary) _2026-06-26 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ Exploring Olympia in Search of the Goddess ## [Artemis at Thermos: Another Pin on the Map](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/artemis-at-thermos-another-pin-on) _2026-06-11 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ Revisiting the Ancient Site ## [The Sacred Kinship of Artemis and Demeter](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/the-sacred-kinship-of-artemis-and) _2026-05-27 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ Sicily, Regeneration, and the Forgotten Overlap Between Artemis Ephesia and the Goddesses of Life and Death ## [The Elusive Temple of Artemis at Sani: Artifacts Without a Site](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/the-elusive-temple-of-artemis-at) _2026-04-09 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ A Hill, a Glass Case, and Echoes of Ancient Devotion ## [Goddess Talks: Hekate, Light in the Darkness with Sorita D'Este](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/goddess-talks-hekate-light-in-the) _2026-03-20 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ In this episode of Goddess Talks, part of The Goddess Project Podcast, I sit down with author and researcher Sorita d’Este for a thoughtful and engaging conversation on the goddess Hekate. ## [Before Asklepios: Apollo’s Forgotten Temple](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/before-asklepios-apollos-forgotten) _2026-03-12 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ Many of you know I am not a big fan of Apollo (ugh!) but, the truth is that wherever there is a temple to Apollo, there is very likely a temple to Artemis. ## [At the Threshold of Healing: Artemis-Hekate at Epidavros](https://artemisexpert.substack.com/p/at-the-threshold-of-healing-artemis) _2026-03-07 · Carla Ionescu PhD · In Search of Artemis_ Where the Path First Began