Ancient Apocalypse

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S1 E3 The Lost City of Helike

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In 373 BCE the classical Greek city of Helike disappeared beneath the waves. Its destruction was so catastrophic that the only way the Greek authors could make sense of it was to blame it on the supernatural - Poseidon destroyed the city. It's hauntingly similar to the myth of another Ancient civilization lost beneath the waves - Atlantis. Helike's location is one of the greatest mysteries in archaeology, but could it be possible to rediscover the lost city and could Helike actually be Atlantis?

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2021/12/26 S1 E1 8

Sodom and Gomorrah

The biblical story of Sodom. It's stood for thousands of years as a powerful lesson of the perils of wickedness. According to the Bible, the men of Sodom were so wicked that God destroyed the city in a shower of fire and brimstone. But did the city of Sodom ever exist and could it be possible to locate? At Tall el-Hammam, in modern day Jordan, archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a once thriving bronze age city, destroyed by some cataclysmic event, that they believe is the city of Sodom.

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2021/12/26 S1 E4 10

Akkadian Empire

In 2334 BCE the Akkadians conquered and united the Sumerian city state kingdoms to create the world's first empire. The Akkadian's ruled over much of Mesopotamia, what is now modern day Iraq, Syria and Turkey, but after only 140 years the Akkadian Empire fractured. Entire regions of Mesopotamia descended into chaos and the Akkadian Empire's very existence was lost to history. Now archaeologists scour the Middle East searching for information about how they became so powerful and why they collapsed.

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2021-12-26

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