Top 10 Most Popular Episodes of Fall of Civilizations Podcast

10) Ep. 6. Easter Island - Where Giants Walked | 2.6m views | Jun 5, 2020: On one of the world’s most isolated islands, hundreds of vast stone statues lie mouldering in the grass.

In this episode, we take a look at one of archaeology’s most enduring puzzles.

9) Ep. 15. The Nabataeans - The Final Days Of Petra | 3.0m views | Jul 17, 2022: In this episode, we look at one of the most peculiar stories of civilizational survival to come down to us from the ancient world, the story of the Nabataeans. Learn about these once humble traders.

8) Ep. 1. Roman Britain - The Work of Giants Crumbled | 3.1m views | Apr 8, 2020: A vast ruined bath house, a fire-damaged poem and a world teetering on the brink of collapse.

In this episode, we look at the collapse of Roman Britain.

7) Ep 4. The Greenland Vikings - Land of the Midnight Sun | 3.2m views | Apr 14, 2020: One of the most unlikely tales of a society’s fall is the incredible saga of the Vikings of Greenland. Find out how these European settlers built a society on the farthest edge of their world.

6) Ep. 2. The Bronze Age Collapse - Mediterranean Apocalypse | 3.6m views | Apr 8, 2020: Sometime around the year 1100 BC, right at the end of the Bronze Age, a wave of destruction washed over the Eastern Mediterranean. It wiped whole civilizations off the map.

5) Ep 10. The Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames | 3.7m views | Dec 5, 2020: We look at the remarkable story of the first empire of ancient China, the Han dynasty. With ancient Chinese poetry, songs and folk music, we look back at the first empire's rise.

4) Ep. 12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud (Part 1 of 2) | 3.9m views | Jul 25, 2021: Explore the mountains of the Andes, and tell the story of the Inca Empire. Find out how these mountain people built the largest empire in the Western Hemipshere in one of the toughest terrains.

3) Ep. 7. The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold | 7.1m views | Jul 19, 2020: Today, the Songhai Empire is all but forgotten by history. But this medieval kingdom was once the most powerful force in Africa. Find out how this civilization grew up on the fringes of the Sahara.

2) Ep. 13. The Assyrians - Empire of Iron | 11.4m views | Oct 16, 2021: Find out about one of the most remarkable ancient civilizations: the society known today as the neo-Assyrian Empire. Discover how the Assyrians built their empire out of the ashes of the Bronze Age.

1) EP. 8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities | 23m views | Aug 16, 2020: Travel into the extremely distant past to look at the Sumerians. These ancient people invented writing and mathematics, and the largest cities in the world.

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