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Aug 19 The Moabite Stone & the Exodus

Its 1868 and we are in Jordan where late in the afternoon during a coffee break, the sheikh of the Banî Hamîdi tribe informed the German...

Aug 20, 20214 min read

Aug 17 Excavating Armageddon

Today we travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Clarence Stanley Fisher was born in 1876. He would devote his life to Near Eastern...

Jul 2, 20213 min read

July 3 Prester John and Marco Polo

For more than 500 years, Europeans believed a Christian king ruled over a vast empire somewhere in the wilds of Africa, India or the Far...

Mar 26, 20213 min read

Mar 25 The emperor who became a monk

Today in 717 we travel to Constantinople when Emperor Theodosius III abdicated and retired to a monastery with his son. In the podcast...

Jan 31, 20214 min read

Jan 31 - Youseff Karam, St Maron & Lebanon

Today in 1867 the Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam left Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria, to begin his second...

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