Explore "ancient_rome" with insightful episodes like "From the Vault: Washing of the Waters, Part 2", "Valentines cards come from the Pagan ritual of slapping bare arses with the hide of a skinned Dog", "Abby Phillip", "From the Vault: Roman Extinctions" and "How Pompeii Worked" from podcasts like ""Stuff To Blow Your Mind", "The Blindboy Podcast", "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!", "Stuff To Blow Your Mind" and "Stuff You Should Know"" and more!
The idea of healing via immersion in sacred or special waters dates back to prehistory, and it’s still alive and well in the modern world. In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe consider the myth, history and reality and healing waters. (Originally published 03/16/2023)
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Humans are capable of amazing technological and societal feats, but we’ve also brought much misery, death and destruction to our world. We are currently in the midst of the sixth great extinction event -- the Holocene extinction -- and the ravages of human activity extend back throughout our history as a dominator species. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe focus in on some of the key extinctions that occurred during the Roman Empire. (Originally published 6/27/2019)
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What must be one of the most famous natural disasters in history took place when Mt Vesuvius buried Pompeii in 79 CE. But when the town was resurrected 1700 years later, a new chapter in its history was written.
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