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  • The Computer at the Bottom of the Sea (the Antikythera mechanism)

    The Computer at the Bottom of the Sea (the Antikythera mechanism)
    Jun 9 2026
    The Computer at the Bottom of the Sea (the Antikythera mechanism)

    In the spring of nineteen hundred and one, a group of Greek sponge divers were making their way home across the Aegean Sea when bad weather forced them to take shelter near a small, rocky island called Antikythera. While they waited out the storm, they did what sponge divers do. They went diving. One of them dropped down through the clear blue water along the steep underwater slope of the island, and when he came back up, he was badly shaken. He claimed he had seen a heap of dead bodies on the seafloor, the corpses of men and horses lying in the deep. His companions thought he had lost his mind, or perhaps suffered from the dangerous pressures of the dive. So another diver went down to check. He came back with a single object in his hand, a corroded bronze arm. The bodies were not bodies at all. They were statues. The divers had stumbled onto an ancient shipwreck, and inside that wreck was an object that would puzzle the finest minds in the world for the next hundred years.

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    8 min
  • The Day the World Heard an Island Die (Krakatoa, 1883)

    The Day the World Heard an Island Die (Krakatoa, 1883)
    Jun 9 2026
    The Day the World Heard an Island Die (Krakatoa, 1883)

    Ten Minute History

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    9 min
  • The Bridge That Cost a Family (Brooklyn Bridge) - Ten Minute History

    The Bridge That Cost a Family (Brooklyn Bridge) - Ten Minute History
    Jun 9 2026
    The Bridge That Cost a Family (Brooklyn Bridge) - Ten Minute History

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    9 min
  • Marie Curie and the Woman Who Lit Up the Dark — Ten Minute History

    Marie Curie and the Woman Who Lit Up the Dark — Ten Minute History
    Jun 8 2026
    Marie Curie and the Woman Who Lit Up the Dark — Ten Minute History

    In 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. In 1911, she won a second one — in a completely different scientific discipline — making her the only person in history to achieve that. In between, she was denied membership in the French Academy of Sciences for being a woman, had her love affair plastered across every newspaper in Europe, and kept working. This is the episode about the scientist who discovered two elements, survived two centuries' worth of condescension, and died from the work that made her famous.

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    15 min
  • Genghis Khan and the Man Who Swallowed the World — Ten Minute History

    Genghis Khan and the Man Who Swallowed the World — Ten Minute History
    Jun 8 2026
    Genghis Khan and the Man Who Swallowed the World — Ten Minute History

    He was born with a blood clot in his fist, which the Mongols took as a sign. He grew up in one of the harshest environments on earth, was abandoned by his tribe at nine years old, and watched his father die by poison before he was a teenager. By the time he was done, he had conquered more territory than any person in history, connected the world's trade routes for the first time, and killed so many people that atmospheric carbon levels measurably dropped. This is the episode about the boy nobody expected and the world that could not stop him.

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    16 min
  • Cleopatra and the Last Queen of the Ancient World — Ten Minute History

    Cleopatra and the Last Queen of the Ancient World — Ten Minute History
    Jun 8 2026
    Cleopatra and the Last Queen of the Ancient World — Ten Minute History

    She was not the woman the paintings made her. She was something more dangerous: a politician of extraordinary skill, the last ruler of a dynasty three centuries old, fluent in nine languages, and perfectly aware that Rome was coming for everything she had built. This episode follows Cleopatra VII from the palace coup that nearly destroyed her to the moment she chose, on her own terms, how it would end.

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    17 min
  • The Die Is Cast - The Julius Caesar Story 10 Minute History

    The Die Is Cast - The Julius Caesar Story 10 Minute History
    Jun 8 2026
    The Die Is Cast - The Julius Caesar Story 10 Minute History

    Julius Caesar spent his whole life preparing for a moment he could not survive. From a broke aristocratic family to the most powerful man in the Roman world, Caesar remade the republic in his image — and was destroyed by the men he trusted most. This episode follows him from the hills where he hid from Sulla's killers to the narrow portico where twenty-three senators were waiting, and asks the question Rome has never stopped arguing about: was he a tyrant, or just the man the republic had been quietly building all along?

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    11 min