Great pods on Hadrian’s Wall and Nineveh. Get those guests back again soon!

Have been a scholar of history from a young age, but just can’t connect with this presentation or style or something. I will get excited about a particular topic as I scroll episodes and inevitably switch it off within five minutes.

In general, a great show. It should have been called European Ancients. If there’s another show about Troy, Rome, or Boudica I’m ready to puke. Yes there were a few episodes on the steppe people, Neanderthals, and Bactria The scope is very limited. Weren’t there ancients in the recorded history of China, India, Africa? Plus prehistory!

Great topics, informed commentary, but a very PC, anachronistic tone. Describing the average Roman as “homophobic,“ as a scholar on the most recent episode does, is to use a descriptor and category that would have baffled the ancients.

Awesome podcast featuring experts working on actual archaeological digs, DNA researchers, historians steeped in the very latest data on the chosen topic. A must listen if you want the most recent analysis on ancient historical locations. Cannot recommend enough!

I’m not a scholar or historian. Just a nurse who is fascinated by ancient history. The Ancients is easily the best pod for all things ancient history. Tristan is a great host and the guests he interviews are top notch. Highly recommend The Ancients.

I love this podcast. If you love learning about ancient history, this is the best podcast around.

I understand monetization may be necessary, however, the majority of what’s released is unavailable to me because I don’t have the funds to join. The podcast is excellent, but I am close to unsubscribing because almost every time I check to see the new episode, I can’t listen. It becomes frustrating. Other podcasts provide options. A greater percentage is available to all or after a certain period of time, episodes unlock. I hope things change.

Was looking for podcasts on Ancient Britons and came across this. Lots of fascinating episodes! Is now one of my “go to” podcasts!

Love it!

5 stars plus for Mr Tristan and company. Don’t miss it. Consistent and informative. Tristan asks many of the same questions I would ask

Every episode is interesting. Great listen. Wonderful guests. Keep it up Tristan!

Was quickly becoming my favorite prehistory podcast, and I’ve tried all I can find, though now it’s reverted to extensively covered topics of Greece and Rome. I hope Tristan makes more of an effort to explore non European topics, and for me those are far and away the best; his episodes on the Olmec and Aboriginal Australians are superb while the mini series on Sparta and Pompeii are—in my opinion—tired. These are some episodes I’d love to hear; Monte Albán, the role and impact of pottery across the globe, the mesoamerican ball game, and other recent non sapien people like the Denisovans and hobbits of SE Asia. I hope you’ll continue to pursue subjects left out of most elementary educations, cheers! UPDATE: the episodes have become almost exclusively about Rome or Alexander the Great. The only recent episode on the Americas is behind a paywall. Going in the wrong direction, unfollowed.

Tristan guides us through history with uncanny enthusiasm and passion. Super interesting podcast, great selection of guest as well.

tristan’s impeccable work on this show convinced me to become a paid subscriber. i listen to a near-excessive amount of podcasts, and am *very* persnickety about what media i consume. i’ve never once been disappointed or left desiring by any episode (except for when i realized i had caught up on all the back catalog episodes!) if i may, “it just goes to show” what a fine project you’ve built in the ancients, tristan.

Great knowledgeable podcast. Recommended for any amateur historian. Or good listen on the way back from work.

I came here to learn more about Homo Naledi, and it is definitely a podcast I will have on regularly. I love it.

Really enjoy this podcast for the content but some episodes are “unlistenable” due to a massive mismatch in volume between the host and the guest. I would think a show with so many episodes and listeners would do a better job in post processing. Otherwise great!

My understanding of Ancient History was shockingly bad until this show. Now things from Julius Caesar to homo naledi interest me.

I give five stars for Everything other than the Jesus episode I just listened to. Her laughing and acting like the history of Jesus is funny and fiction. She needs to read the Bible! Prophets (John the Baptist) are not the same as Jesus. She’s so disrespectful. All of history is talked about in such reverent tones, but when it comes to Jesus and Christianity it’s mocked and questioned. Annoying as F. It’s history, No matter your faith.

I live for this podcast! So well hosted and researched. The guests are always so interesting.

The commercials are just not a problem. It’s only fair, since we get to listen to quality audio entertainment. Thank you HH

99% of the content is about Rome or Greece… there are other ancient civilizations that have not been extensively covered by numerous other podcasts and programs. Why the obsession with these two?

Thank you Tristan for your dedication to making a top tier history podcast. The depth of sources, the expertise of the guests, the range of topics…everything is purposeful, well curated and exceptional. On a personal note, I started listening to this after my uncle passed and my father fell into deep dementia. They are the two men I used to be able to sit and talk about history with for countless hours. They taught me from an early age about how the dates and facts may change but that human nature changes very little over great expanses of human history. I miss those talks deeply and this show playing in my ear as I go about my work makes me feel like they’re not quite so absent. I felt it necessary to share this to demonstrate how profoundly important I’ve found this show. I hope everyone working on it gets to read this review and that it helps them to feel the impact of their work on individual lives. Best to all of you and I hope you can keep doing what you’re doing for my whole life.

I regularly tune into this Podcast, its a car washing go-to, and for anyone looking for consistently engaging pieces about antiquity you’ve found it; tbh it’s an order of magnitude superior (scope and quality) from anything else you are going to find similarly themed. There’s also times where it exceeds its own high bar and is genuinely pukka. In sum, I guess its sometimes anti-Christian/Theist slant only highlights its academic dominated guest list, and it’s “mainstream-Left” positions are never soap boxed, and always in service of the show’s drive towards professionalism and entertainment backed via proper scholarship.

I absolutely love this show. However please don’t ever bring Professor Paul Cartledge on again to talk about anything to do with women. For example, he used terms like “deflowered” to talk about women who have had their first sexual experience, and “intact” to describe those who hadn’t yet. It was so creepy.

I just love the Tristorian - the topics, guests and presentations are marvelous.

Thank you for giving us a very good quality podcast.

I have listened to several episodes and have enjoyed them overall. However, I have noticed that there have been certain historical claims made in the episodes that doesn’t jive with widely accepted historical and archeological record. What’s a bit irritating is when these claims are made they are just glossed over instead of offering more evidence to support their claims they tend to continue to move forward with the show. If there is such claims made I want to hear about their evidence and Why they think that way! Maybe just me?

This and podcast is so engaging even if I never heard about the subject. Also helps me understand and deal with the events and horrors of the present. Thank you.

It’s my favorite podcast. Great subjects, awesome host, great guests. Keep it up! Also I like it because is non political and I would like it to stay the same. Also, I would love to see some content on ancient Europe (besides Greece, Rome, vikings, UK). There are few countries/civilizations whose history would be very interesting to have approached: Dacia, Tracia, France, Germany, Spain, Basque Country, Catalonia, Portugal.

He’s just so smug and British!

I may not be interested in all the subjects offered but I find them all fascinating. Those that have a particular interest for me are always comprehensive and enlightening. Bravo

Sarah Illes Johnston was brilliant. Love the windows on the parts of history we never think about.

I love these in-depth discussions with scholars of the ancient. They manage to be very polite well also clearly showing the speakers’ passion and research. Great topics.

Often it seems the guests are not properly miked up. Almost like when someone on the telephone is talking through speaker phone and they cant be heard clearly. The problem is compounded as I am American and have a little trouble understanding the UK accent. Please give your guests a proper microphone.

Highly recommend Tristan’s perspective on history of the ancient world. More non-Western focused episodes, please. I’ve really enjoyed hearing about India, China and Central America!

The experts that get brought in, as well as the depth of each topic beyond what the titles might suggest, all bring The Ancients to a top-tier level of history podcast. A must-listen for anyone interested in these topics.

Really interesting and enjoyable

This is a fantastic podcast, I just found it and now I can’t stop listening. Also I could listen to Ben Kane talk about Romans for hours!

I love this podcast. It presents history in the way it is, alive with new discoveries and with experts who don’t always agree with each other on things.

Always has interesting and informative episodes, especially recently.

Man I am addicted to this podcast I lovvvve history and ancient history and cultures good host too.

Or, really, just the best podcast I’ve ever heard. Smart, never dumber down, but engaging, fascinating, and each episode is a topic any one who seeks knowledge will crave.

yes, history as it should be viewed!

The Ancients covers a wide variety of topics and eras via interviews of excellent scholars who have interesting, and sometimes controversial, points of view. It's one of my go-to podcasts and I'm rarely disappointed. Great work!

The preeminent ancient history podcast. Fascinating and eclectic topics. Worth a listen!

This podcast has never disappointed. Tristan is a star, the guests are of the highest caliber and so passionate about their subject. I have listened to The Parthenon several times and learn something each time. I could listen to Michael Scott for hours and not get bored. Thank you Tristan, Dan and History Hit.

Great find for those who are history/ culture lovers! I wish the host would reach out to people who are part of the culture they are speaking on- instead of European or White American scholars. This is perpetuating the narrative that history is whitewashed. Otherwise, it is sasy to understand and follow along, and the content is very interesting! Keep on learning everyone! 🥸🖤

Listening to this podcast has become a ritual to me. Tristan Hughes is a great host, and I almost feel like he has become a friend :D. I especially love the episodes that focus on languages and specific texts!