Important announcement: the History News Show will be on pause for a few months, until I finish my Master’s degree in History. I will be back at the end of summer 2017. This episode, we start with some follow up about Goebbels’ secretary and ab

17 - More Dead Sea Scrolls, Mary Beard Finds Tudor Tapestry, Confort Women Row and Obama’s National Monuments

Jan 21st, 2017 58m 1s

This week, we’ll start with some follow-up on the antiquities situation in Syria, Iraq and Egypt, with the usual mix of very bad news and some minor good news. Then we’ll uncover some new Dead Sea Scrolls, we’ll see how a historian found a pric

16 - Ancient Greek City Found, Franklin’s Demise, Nimrud and Palmyra News and La Trinite Shipwreck

Dec 22nd, 2016 37m 47s

This week, we start with some follow-up about the destruction of Nimrud, we’re happy to learn some Christian texts were hidden from ISIS, but this group re-enters Palmyra, and Old Aleppo is retaken but destroyed. We hear of the reason why the F

15 - First Egyptian City, First Plymouth Settlement, Nazi West Germany and Erotic Pompeii

Dec 7th, 2016 40m 20s

This week, we go through some follow-up on Colombia, on China’s Terracotta Army, on Iraqi Kurdistan, and on Nimrud. We’ll hear a call to protect antiquities the world over, Swiss Customs seize some looted artefacts, a new ancient Egyptian city

14 - Nimrod Destroyed, FARC Accord Update, Viking News and Schindler Museum

Nov 22nd, 2016 43m 5s

This week, we start with follow up on the Colombian Peace Process, we see the destruction caused by ISIS to ancient Nimrud in Iraq, but there’s also some good news with the discovery of a nearby Bronze Age city. Then we hear about several new d

13 - Forty Black Sea Shipwrecks, Jesus’s Tomb Opened, Italy Tremors Damage and Armistice Day

Nov 9th, 2016 38m 30s

This week, we get some results from the Scan Pyramids Project in Egypt, we take a look at some amazing underwater 3D photography of more than 40 shipwrecks in the Black Sea, we fly drones over the Plain of Jars in Laos, and we learn just how lo

12 - Alan Turing Music, 3D Pompeii, Biblical Stone Toilet and Chinese Cannabis Grave

Oct 21st, 2016 22m 43s

This week, we hear the first electronic music from Alan Turing’s computer, we see the inside of a Roman villa in 3D, we learn how a stone toilet was used in Biblical times, we read an ancient rental contract, we discover new Dead Sea Scrolls an

Behind the News 2 - Origins of the FARC and the Colombian Conflict

Oct 13th, 2016 52m 4s

On this special episode of History Behind the News, we explore the origins of the FARC guerrillas and the Colombian Conflict (1964-2016). After the recent rejection in a referendum of the Peace Accord between Colombia and its most important rev

11 - Otzi’s Murder, Nazi Time Capsule, Pool of Petra and Turkey’s Looted Art

Oct 4th, 2016 35m

This week, we follow up on the Antikythera Shipwreck, where they found a skeleton, on the Great Plague of London’s cause(s) and on Parks Canada’s confirmation of HMS Terror’s discovery. We also discover a huge pool in the desert at Petra, Otzi

10 - Franklin’s HMS Terror Found, London’s 1665 Plague, NMAAHC Grand Opening

Sep 20th, 2016 32m 11s

This week, we discover the HMS Terror from the Lost Franklin Expedition, we reveal two Venuses out of Petra’s rubble, we analyze the bacteria responsible for the 1665 Great Plague of London, we hail a Scottish Hero of the Holocaust, and we see

9 - The Anthropocene Epoch, Mussolini’s Message, Mummies Scanned and Myanmar Earthquake

Sep 7th, 2016 34m 40s

This week, we enter the Anthropocene Epoch, we hear about Mussolini’s Time Capsule, we analyze the Plague’s DNA, we reconstruct the face and the tattoos of Egyptian mummies, we scan for hidden Mexican texts and we learn of the discovery of a Po

8 - Otzi’s Clothes, Stonehenge’s Wood Henge, Roman Curses and Goebbels’ Secretary

Aug 23rd, 2016 29m 57s

This week, we analyze Otzi’s Leathers, we discover NOT a stone henge near Stonehenge, we go back to Cyprus for more mosaics and gold, we get cursed from beyond a Roman grave, and we follow up on the Reimagine the Alamo dig. Also, a law in Pola

7 - China’s Great Flood, The Alamo Dig, Camelot (maybe) Found and the Himmler Diaries

Aug 9th, 2016 34m 35s

This week, we hear of possible confirmation for China's First Dynasty Great Flood myth, we find out why Atlantic Salmon all but disappeared from Europe, we learn of the Master Plan to Reimagine the Alamo in Texas, we wonder if Camelot, the cour

6 - New UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Twelve Labors Mosaic and Parthenon Marbles Bill

Jul 26th, 2016 26m 34s

This week, we learn of the end of a major dig in Cambridgeshire, England, we uncover the Twelve Labours of Hercules in Cyprus, we dig up a Chinese latrine on the Silk Road, and we wonder if the Lost Colony of Roanoke has finally been found! Al

5 - Rare Jefferson Letters, Battle of the Somme 100th and Route 66 Women’s history

Jul 12th, 2016 27m 18s

This week, we talk about a Holocaust escape tunnel rediscovered, we hear about the Buddha’s skull, rediscovered also, we see how medieval knights could dance and capper around in full armour, and we look at some important letters from founding

4 - Viking Saga Confirmed, Ancient Greek Computer and the Great Pyramid isn't Square

Jul 1st, 2016 47m 9s

This week, we return to the Antikythera shipwreck still yielding secrets after a 100 years, including the oldest computer, also in Greece, we find where the Athenians kept their famous fleet dry; in India, we dig up one of the earliest Buddhist

3 - Ruins at Petra and Angkor, Lorenz Cypher Found, and Sicily at the British Museum

Jun 17th, 2016 45m 57s

This week, we decipher 2000 year old Roman writing tablets, we x-ray some old book covers, and we hear about two major archaeological finds, at Petra, in the Kingdom of Jordan, and in Cambodia, around the famous temple of Angkor. Also: looting

2 - Caesarea Bronze Statues, Da Vinci’s Doom and Greenish Taj Mahal

Jun 1st, 2016 51m 18s

This week, we find bronze statues from Imperial Rome at the bottom of Caesarea port, we unearth Praetorian barracks under Rome’s Metro Line C, we use star charts to date Sappho’s ancient Midnight Poem and we learn what killed Leonardo Da Vinci.

Behind the News 1 - North Korea Nuclear Weapons Program

May 17th, 2016 36m 46s

In this special episode of History Behind the News, we look at the history of the North Korean Nuclear Program, to better understand the significance of recent events surrounding this secretive and belligerent country. I will give you the histo

1 - Vasco da Gama ships, Harriet Tubman on the 20 and May Day-Labour Day

May 17th, 2016 59m 11s

This week, we’ll explore the Arabian Sea in search of the lost ships from the Vasco da Gama expeditions, and we’ll look through a Lady’s personal things in the Wadden Sea. In England, we’ll dig through a Roman villa and several ancient villages

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