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365 Days of Archaeology

Archaeology Podcast Network

99 episodes

3 months ago

This podcast was a series we did on the APN that feature a podcast a day for about 400 days. The back catalogue is at www.archpodnet.com/arch365.

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This podcast was a series we did on the APN that feature a podcast a day for about 400 days. The back catalogue is at www.archpodnet.com/arch365.

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Episodes (20/99)

365 Days of Archaeology

Troy - Episode 18045

The world heritage site of Troy, in modern Anatolia in Turkey, best known from the homeric epics, is today known as the site of nine successive cities dating between 3000 BCE and AD 500.

7 years ago

4 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Bath - Episode 18044

The Roman baths, in the City of Bath, England, are one of the best preserved roman bathing complexes in the United Kingdom.

7 years ago

3 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Carynx - Episode 18043

A large, bronze, S-shaped trumpet in use by Iron Age Celtic peoples, the Carynx was regularly used in battle to intimidate their enemies.

7 years ago

3 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Ise Shrine - Episode 18042

The Ise Grand Shrine, also called Ise Jingū, is a paris-sized Shinto shrine complex with 125 separate temples that was founded in the 7th century. The Ise complex located in the city of Ise, Mie Prefecture of Japan.

7 years ago

4 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Saalburg - Episode 18041

The Saalburg is a Roman fort located northwest of Bad Homburg, 20 km north-north-west of Frankfurt in the state of Hessen in Germany.

7 years ago

5 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Stonehenge - Episode 18040

Stonehenge is a British cultural icon that is also one of the best known archaeological sites in the world. It is set within one of the most extensive Neolithic and Bronze age landscapes in Britain.

7 years ago

8 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Historic Fish Wiers - Episode 18039

Of the many methods of exploiting fish, weirs are one of the most important to archaeologists as they leave the longest lasting evidence on the landscape.

7 years ago

5 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Dunhuang - Episode 18038

The ancient Chinese city of Dunhuang, located at a strategic crossroads of the ancient southern silk road, is famed for its art and archaeology relating to historical Buddhist worship.

7 years ago

5 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Roskilde - Episode 18037

Roskilde a Danish city with a fascinating history in its own right and whose origins date back to the pre-christian Viking age is most well known for the Danish Viking Ship Museum.

7 years ago

5 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Scandinavian York - Episode 18036

Jórvík, the scandinavian name for the southern kingdom of Northumbria, which roughly corresponds to present day Yorkshire, and also its capital city York, was controlled by a succession of Norse warrior-kings between the late 9th and early 10th century CE.

7 years ago

3 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Glendalough - Episode 18035

With a foundation date some time in the sixth century, the monastic landscape of Glendalough (Glen-daw-lock but said kinda fast) is a rich archaeological resource located 35 km south of Dublin.

7 years ago

5 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Mastermyr chest - Episode 18034

The largest ever find of Viking Age blacksmithing and woodworking tools was found in the Mästermyr Wetlands, west of the town of Hemse, on the island of Gotland in Sweden.

7 years ago

4 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Acropolis - Episode 18033

The ancient citadel, known as the Acropolis of Athens or just the Acropolis, best known for the monumental temples and structures including the Parthenon, is a symbol of ancient Athenian and Greek power and civilisation the world over.

7 years ago

6 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Wolin - Episode 18032

Wolin, a Polish island in the Baltic Sea, has evidence of a human presence from the Neolithic, but is best known as the site of trading settlements from the early medieval period.

7 years ago

4 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Book of Kells - Episode 18031

The astonishingly beautiful, illustrated Gospel, known as the Book of Kells was created between the 6th and 8th centuries.

7 years ago

5 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Valsgarde - Episode 18030

The cemetery hill at Valsgärde, in use for five hundred years, provides an unparalleled insight into elite life and death in Sweden during the tail end of the Migration Period, through the Vendel Age, and into the Viking Age.

7 years ago

4 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Jelling - Episode 18029

Today Jelling is a small town of less than 4000 people, however, it is considered to be the site of the the founding of modern Denmark.

7 years ago

5 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Ogham - Episode 18028

Ogham in Old Irish, or Ogham (Oham) in modern Irish, is a writing system that utilizes lines in groups of one to five across a longer, central line, usually carved into stone.

7 years ago

9 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Antikythera Mechanism - Episode 18027

The Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analogue computer and was able to track astronomical and astrological movements as well as the four year cycle of ancient Greek Games.

7 years ago

5 minutes

365 Days of Archaeology

Tara Brooch - Episode 18026

Though considered by some to be the Dark Ages, some aspects of the Early Medieval period produced some phenomenal works of art. Many such works of art made in metal were created in Ireland.

7 years ago

6 minutes