Welcome back. In the episode Khalid will continue our exploration of the Islamic Golden Age by telling you how the Abbasids brutally consolidated their power following the revolution. Then he'll tell you about their restructuring of the Empire and how they built one of the greatest libraries and places of learning in history. Thanks for listening, this is the Islamic Golden Age. 

 

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Hi and welcome to the first episode in this series of Excavate. In this episode Khalid will be introducing you to the beginning of the Islamic Golden Age. We will start before Islam came into being and explore how a group of people from one of the most arid and resource poor regions on earth became arguably the most powerful and advanced empire on the planet. Thank you for listening to Excavate. This is The Islamic Golden Age. 

 

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Welcome back.  This is the bonus episode to go along with our series on the Viking Age. Assassin's Creed Valhalla was just released and it is of course set in the Viking Age. I thought this would be a great opportunity to do a special episode and talk about the archaeology in Assassins Creed and video games in general. I've asked Tristan French onto the podcast. Tristan wrote a masters dissertation and co-authored a book chapter on archaeology in video games. We talk about authenticity, just how accurate the games are, using video games for education, how the assassin’s creed developers worked with archaeologists, cool things we’ve both noticed in the games and more.

Wecome back. In the final episode of the series Khalid will tell you about the last 100 years or so of what we have come to call the Viking age. You will learn what actually happened to the Vikings. Did they dissapear or did they just change? We'll talk about Rollo, probably the most succesful Viking of all time. We'll also discuss the legacy of Alfred the Great through to the crisis of 1066, culminating in the famous battle of Hastings. 

 

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Welcome back, in this episode Khalid will take you through possibly the most significant Viking archaeological site in Britain and explain the techniques Archaeologists use, as well as what these discoveries teach us about the Great Heathen Army. Then we'll explore a time where Anglo-Saxon Britain teetered on the edge of total annihilation and Alfred the Great was forced to earn his name.

 

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Welcome back, in the last episode Khalid introduced you to the Great Heathen Army which invaded Britain led by Ivar the Boneless and conquered Northumbria founding Jorvik, the first Viking city in Britain. He then told you about the siege of Nottingham and introduced you to the legendary Alfred the Great. In this episode we will continue to follow the Great Heathen Army as they turn their sights on more of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and begin an intense and violent period in British history. This is the story of The Viking Age.

 

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Welcome back, in this episode Khalid will take you through a series of events that lead to massive upheaval and start a new chapter in the Viking age. He'll attempt to separate myth from legend and inform you about the terrifying force the Anglo Saxon Chronicle calls The Great Heathen Army. 

 

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Welcome back, this episode begins with a huge fleet of Vikings just off the French coast in 845, Khalid will tell you about about the most famous event in the life of the most legendary Viking. He'll also use the site of a Viking raid in Scotland to explain how archaeologists are able to piece together stories from objects. Then he'll take you back to southern England where the Vikings are evolving into more than just raiders, where the Anglo-Saxons must fight for not only their wealth, but their very existence. This is the story of The Viking Age. 

 

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Welcome to the first episode in the second series of the Excavate Podcast. In this episode, Khalid introduces you to an age that will shape Europe for millennia to come. He will be recounting how a new group of warriors came to be feared across Europe and what made them so dangerous compared to others. The story begins on a small island off the south coast of England where three strange ships have been blown off course. From there we are led to the rest of the British Isles and across the sea to the Carolingian Empire where Emperor Charlemagne struggles to contain this new threat. This is the story of the Viking Age.

 

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Welcome back, over the past three episodes we have explored the trail of sickness and death taken by history’s most destructive disease. As our time with this tale comes to a close, Khalid will be moving our focus to the legacy of the plague. We’ll also be taking a closer look at the specifics of the disease and considering some of the theories as to why the fourteenth century outbreak was so deadly compared to others. This is the story of the Black Death.