Lindos is an archaeological site on the east coast of the island of Rhodes. The city has seen its fair share of history dating from its founding in Classical times by the the same Dorian people mentioned in your high school english class (when you were assigned to read the "Odyssey"), to the Medieval period (when the Knights of St. John defended the island from the Ottomans).

Lindos - Episode 356

This podcast was a series we did on the APN that feature a podcast a day for about 400 days. The back catalogue is at www.archpodnet.com/arch365.

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The world heritage site of Troy, in modern Anatolia in Turkey, best known from the homeric epics, is today known as the site of nine successive cities dating between 3000 BCE and AD 500.

Troy - Episode 18045

The Roman baths, in the City of Bath, England, are one of the best preserved roman bathing complexes in the United Kingdom.

Bath - Episode 18044

A large, bronze, S-shaped trumpet in use by Iron Age Celtic peoples, the Carynx was regularly used in battle to intimidate their enemies.

Carynx - Episode 18043

The Ise Grand Shrine, also called Ise Jingū, is a paris-sized Shinto shrine complex with 125 separate temples that was founded in the 7th century. The Ise complex located in the city of Ise, Mie Prefecture of Japan.

Ise Shrine - Episode 18042

The Saalburg is a Roman fort located northwest of Bad Homburg, 20 km north-north-west of Frankfurt in the state of Hessen in Germany.

Lindos - Episode 356

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