Christina Videbech, postdoc at the university of Bergen in Norway and co-author of the book Fire of The Mind, joins Let's Dig Deeper podcast.

In this episode, we take a closer look at mental illness and insanity in ancient Rome.

Did the Romans do therapy? Were Nero and Caligula really insane, or just insanely misunderstood? And could it be that Emperor Tiberius wasn't a monster, but just autistic?

These are some of the questions we tackle in this episode!

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In this episode we're learning all about textile archaeology. I've invited prof. Eva Andersson Strand and associate professor Elsa Yvanez from the University of Copenhagen to tell me everything they know about fabrics of the past.

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Do archaeologists lick bones?

What can we learn from studying animal remains of the past?

And can we predict the future by looking at earlier climate and migration patterns?

These questions and more are answered in this episode of Let's Dig Deeper, where I talk with zoo-archaeologists Luise Ørsted Brandt (Associate professor at UCPH) and Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen (Senior researcher at the Globe Institute). We take a closer look at what zooarchaeology can teach us and how working with faunal remains can paint a new picture of the past.

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In this episode of Let's Dig Deeper I talk with lector emerita Annette Rathje about the Etruscans - who were they, what was their history and what did they leave behind for us?

Tune in to the full episode now and hear more about:

• Who lived in Italy before the Romans
• Why the Etruscans built intricate tomb networks
• What Etruscan customs and traditions survived after the fall of their cities

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After the Battle of Actium, Egypt became a Roman province - but what was the relationship between the two ancient superpowers like before that?

And how did that dynamic evolve over time?

In this episode I interview Kristine Bülow Clausen - scholar and expert, with a special focus on Egypt outside of Egypt, and the way Rome and Egypt interacted around the fall of the Roman Republic and during the Flavian dynasty.

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What were the original sports at the ancient Olympics?

Why did the ancient Greeks hold funeral games, and what can we learn about these games from ancient texts?

These are some of the questions were looking into in this episode of Let's Dig Deeper, where I interview philologists Thomas Heine Nielsen and Marcel Lysgaard Lech about sport and athletics in antiquity, particularly in ancient Greece.

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Welcome back to another episode of Let's Dig Deeper podcast!

This episode is a bit of a special one, as its from the first ever live episode of Let's Dig Deeper, which was held in collaboration with ASF Association at the University of Copenhagen. Our delightful audience was joined by two scholars, Seraina Nett (Assyriologist) and Sofie Schiødt (Egyptologist) for a talk about two of the most remarkable ancient civilisations, namely Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt.

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What was the ancient Roman equivalent of Malibu beach?

Where did the very wealthiest Romans escape to for their luxury retreats?

And how did their luxury maritime villas merge the land and the sea?

Tune in to this episode and find out the answer to all these questions and more, when I interview Wolfgang Filser, associate professor at UCPH and an expert in Roman maritime villas. Since 2014 Wolfgang has lead excavations at the Cape of Sorrento near Naples, and today he's sharing some of his special insights into the seaside estates of the Roman elites.

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