Wonders of the World

Etched in the rocky plains of the southern Peruvian coast, the Nazca Lines fascinate visitors and archaeologists. While ... Read more

This week, it's off to Greece's Peloponnese peninsula, to visit Olympia, home of the Statue of Zeus and the original Oly... Read more

It's the story of a farmboy, an actress, an unruly mob, and a bacterium. The Roman Empire evolved, and based in Constant... Read more

Rome was entrenched in chaos, until one man took charge, and through sheer force of will - and the army - remade the Emp... Read more

The Maya return as we visit Tikal, nestled in the jungles of northern Guatemala, and pick up the story of Nuun Ujol Chaa... Read more

The volcano Vesuvius still looms of the ruined Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, along the coast of Southern Ital... Read more

We who are about to podcast salute you! Titus comes back for one more round as he unveils his father's masterpiece: the ... Read more

Lost city of the Nabataeans, the rock-cut city of Petra has been rightfully celebrated as a Wonder of the World, at leas... Read more

So close to the tourist trail, yet so far, Libya sits on the Mediterranean yet has been isolated for decades by poverty,... Read more

We return to China, where the Tang Dynasty has embarked on a golden age of culture and cosmopolitanism.  In the valleys ... Read more

Another big episode, as Muhammad arrives on the scene.  An illiterate merchant in faraway Arabia, Muhammad develops a ne... Read more

On the western fringe of Germany, near the Dutch and Belgian borders, sits Aachen, favored city of Charles the Great, or... Read more

This episode, we visit Alexandria, Egypt, at its peak, as we check out the Lighthouse (or Pharos) and the Great Library.... Read more

You've seen the Pyramid on countless tourism brochures, but what do you really know about the Mayan city of Chichén Itzá... Read more

A drama in three acts, all centered on the Fortress of Masada, a remarkable bastion perched above the Dead Sea in Israel... Read more

We go to Southwest England to see Stonehenge. We talk about the Neolithic revolution, Wales, Arthur and the Holy Grail, ... Read more

Near the shores of the salt-saturated Dead Sea, the Israelites wrote the world's most read book. Garry Stephens of the H... Read more

On April 15, 2019, a fire started in Notre-Dame de Paris and caused significant damage.  In its honor, here is a bonus e... Read more

Jesus Christ arrives on the scene, to the consternation of the Roman authorities and the Jewish establishment. We visit ... Read more

It's big! It's bronze! This week, we'll head to the Greek island of Rhodes, and hear them undergo two separate sieges, o... Read more