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Le rêve américain existait déjà avant l’Amérique ! Impossible ? Et pourtant dès le Moyen Âge, donc bien avant la colonisation atlantique, il y a déjà une lointaine cité, garnie de hautes tours, où tout devient possible ! C’est là que Sinbad le Marin, un héritier ruiné, devient ri ...  Show more

Ah, l'Égypte ancienne… Ses pyramides, ses hiéroglyphes, son papyrus, ses pharaons… Autant de choses qui fascinent et passionnent depuis des siècles. Et pourtant on ne va pas du tout en parler aujourd'hui ! Dans cet épisode, on va se concentrer sur son aspect quotidien, sur commen ...  Show more

All this month on the History Hit family of podcasts, we've been marking LGBT+ History Month. To round off the month, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigates an extraordinary episode, long denied by scholars. In 1578, a same-sex community that gathered in a ...

The urban cultures of ancient Mesopotamia formed the foundation for so much of our modern world. Nowhere exemplifies this better than the city of Babylon, which was the cultural seedbed for the Greek and Roman civilisations that in turn left such lasting legacies.

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The roots of the word ‘Nomad’ dates back to an extremely early Indo-European word, ‘nomos’. After towns and cities are built and more people settle, ‘Nomad’ comes to describe people who live without walls and beyond boundaries. Now, the word is used by settled people - for som ...

Rome has attracted aspiring conquerors and leaders for millennia, not just as a great metropolis, but as an idea. It has long been a symbol of military might and universal power, defined by political and religious authority as well as great feats of engineering that would leav ...