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The Forgotten Timeline

Step into the captivating world of history with "The Forgotten Timeline," a podcast that takes you on an immersive journey through the annals of time. Join us as we unravel the rich tapestry of human civilization, exploring the stories, events, and individuals that have shaped our world.In each episode, we dive deep into a different era, culture, or pivotal moment in world history, shedding light on the triumphs, challenges, and enduring legacies that continue to resonate today. From the ancient

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30:03

Ancient-DNA Study Identifies Originators of...

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/12/31

The episode explores the historical and genetic origins of the Indo-European language family, which currently serves billions of people worldwide. It details a significant scientific breakthrough from 2025 that utilizes ancient DNA analysis to resolve a long-standing debate between the Steppe and Anatolian hypotheses. Researchers identified a specific Copper Age population in the Caucasus-Lower Volga region of southern Russia as the primary ancestors of these diverse languages. This group’s

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34:22

The Origins of Hermeticism - A Journey Through...

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/12/17

The episode offers an extensive historical and philosophical overview of Hermeticism, an influential Western esoteric tradition. It traces the tradition's origins to Hellenistic Egypt, particularly Alexandria, where the Greek god Hermes was syncretized with the Egyptian god Thoth to create the mythical sage Hermes Trismegistus. The text explains that while the tradition was once believed to predate Moses, modern scholarship dates key texts like the Corpus Hermeticum to the 2nd–3rd centuries CE

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32:24

How Nelson Mandela’s Leadership Dismantled and Ended...

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/12/11

The episode offers a comprehensive historical analysis of Nelson Mandela’s leadership and its decisive role in dismantling apartheid in South Africa. The text argues that the end of minority rule was not primarily due to military action or sanctions, but rather to Mandela's unique combination of unyielding principle and pragmatic reconciliation. It traces his evolution from a revolutionary lawyer who helped form the ANC’s armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, to a prisoner who used his 27 years of

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33:48

Did Vikings Ever Encounter Native Americans?

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/12/11

The episode offers a comprehensive overview of the Norse discovery and fleeting settlement in North America, known as Vinland, around 1000 CE, nearly five centuries before Columbus. It explains that the primary written evidence comes from two Icelandic texts, the Vinland sagas, which detail expeditions led by figures like Leif Eriksson and describe hostile encounters with indigenous peoples, whom the Norse called Skrælings. Crucially, the text emphasizes the shift from saga to accepted history

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48:10

The Origins of Yoga - Spirituality, Meditation, and...

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/12/11

The episode provides an extensive historical and philosophical overview of yoga, tracing its origins from the ancient past to its modern global presence. It explains that the Sanskrit root of yoga, yuj, means "to yoke" or "to unite," emphasizing the practice's ultimate goal is the union of the self with ultimate reality, rather than just physical exercise. The source traces the earliest archaeological evidence of meditative postures to the Indus-Sarasvati Civilization around 2500 BCE and follows its

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41:00

The Origins of Buddhism - A Very Brief History

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/12/08

The source traces the origins of Buddhism from its start as a small reform movement in the Ganges plain during the Axial Age to its establishment as a global spiritual path. It outlines the life of the founder, Siddhārtha Gautama, detailing his awakening and the initial dissemination of his pragmatic teachings, which focused on the Four Noble Truths as the path to end suffering. The narrative continues through the formation of the early monastic community, the Saṅgha, and the preservation of the

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24:29

Roman Officers Kept Pet Monkeys, Who Also Had Pets!

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/12/07

The episode provides a detailed account of the discovery of 34 carefully buried monkeys at the ancient Roman port of Berenike, Egypt, highlighting their significance as exotic luxury pets kept by the military elite. These monkeys, mostly imported long-tailed and bonnet macaques from India, were interred in a dedicated pet cemetery with textiles and offerings, practices mirroring human funerary rites. Osteological evidence confirms the primates suffered from severe, long-term illnesses due to an

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37:15

Remembering Fred Hampton - A Life of Unity and Change

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/12/06

The episode chronicles the life and political legacy of Fred Hampton, the influential chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party who was murdered at age twenty-one in 1969. Hampton is remembered primarily for establishing the original Rainbow Coalition, an unprecedented alliance that forged solidarity among Black, Puerto Rican, and poor white working-class groups in Chicago. This powerful movement, which focused on essential "Serve the People" programs like free breakfast and health clinics, drew

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36:00

Animism’s Origin - How Our Ancestors Respected Nature

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/12/03

The episode provides a comprehensive overview of animism, defining it as the ancient and universal belief that all natural phenomena and objects possess consciousness or spirit. This worldview emerged globally, rooted in the human cognitive bias known as the hyperactive agency detection device, which safely interpreted environmental changes as the actions of powerful spirits. Historically, animism acted as an adaptive ecological ethic, ensuring sustainable resource use by treating non-human entities

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27:36

The Real Story of Giordano Bruno - Why Was He Burnt...

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/12/02

The episode deconstructs the popular myth that Giordano Bruno was a martyr for modern science who was executed by the Church for supporting Copernicanism and the idea of infinite worlds. According to the author, Bruno was not a scientist but a restless, hermetic philosopher whose revolutionary cosmology stemmed from mystical intuition rather than empirical observation. His long trial and eventual execution by the Roman Inquisition in 1600 centered almost exclusively on profound theological heresies

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34:20

Califia - The Fictional Black Warrior Queen of the...

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/12/02

The episode examines the surprising literary origins of the name "California," tracing its history back to a single passage in the 1510 Spanish adventure novel Las Sergas de Esplandián. This novel introduced Queen Califia, a powerful dark-skinned Amazon who ruled an island paradise populated by women warriors and rich in gold. The name transitioned from fiction to reality when Spanish explorers, carried away by the myth of wealth and female power, formally applied it to the newly charted North

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37:14

The Origins of Shamanism - Tracing Humanity’s Oldest...

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/11/30

The episode explores shamanism as the world’s oldest spiritual practice, defining it not as a religion but as a global technology of consciousness centered on entering altered states to gain knowledge or healing. Archaeological artifacts, such as the 40,000-year-old Löwenmensch figurine and ancient rock art, indicate that the practice has roots that may be predating modern humans and are simultaneous with the development of symbolic behavior. Its universality is explained by a neurobiological

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38:11

1,000 Years of American History

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/11/13

The episode offers a comprehensive historical overview titled "1,000 years of American history," starting in 1025 CE with the Norse interlude and extending through November 2025. The episode is structured chronologically into seven sections, tracing the trajectory from Indigenous civilizations and the colonial experiments of European powers to the establishment of the American republic and its later evolution into a global superpower. Key themes explored include the constant patterns of migration

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34:22

Standing Swords Among Many Viking Treasures Found in...

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/11/10

The source provides an extensive overview of significant Viking Age archaeological finds discovered during excavations for the E18 motorway expansion in Västmanland, central Sweden. Conducted by Arkeologerna between 2021 and 2022, the project unearthed over 139 graves, farmsteads, and ritual sites, most notably revealing rare standing swords thrust upright into elite warrior graves. These treasures, which also include monumental cremation platforms, imported glass beads, and ornate horse equipment,

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78:11

Celtic Mythology - All the Important Stories and...

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/11/07

The source provides an extensive overview of Celtic mythology, which is characterized as a fragmented "mosaic" primarily preserved through medieval Christian manuscripts because the ancient Celts favored oral tradition. The text details the two main branches of insular mythology: Irish (Goidelic), organized into four great cycles like the Mythological and Ulster Cycles, and Welsh (Brythonic), which largely survives in the Mabinogion and Arthurian precursors. Specific attention is paid to major

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30:57

Ancient Greeks and Romans Worked Out to Music Too

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/11/04

The source examines how ancient Greek and Roman physical training relied heavily on music, establishing a practice still common today. It explains that figures like Plato and Aristotle considered music and gymnastics the twin pillars of education, essential for shaping a virtuous body and soul, a concept known as kalokagathia. The episode details the use of specific instruments, particularly the aulos (a double-reeded wind instrument), for pacing activities, synchronizing group drills, and setting

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44:11

Norse Settlement of North America

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/11/02

The episode offers a comprehensive overview of the Norse exploration and brief settlement in North America, focusing on the period around 1000 AD, centuries before Columbus. It explains how Erik the Red established Greenland as a stepping stone, using the Icelandic sagas to trace the voyages of Leif Eiriksson to Helluland, Markland, and Vinland. Crucially, the sources detail the archaeological discovery of the temporary Viking base at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, which provides concrete proof

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60:39

The Egyptian Mystery School - Secrets Revealed

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/11/01

The episode offers an extensive overview of the curriculum and practices of the ancient Egyptian Mystery Schools, refuting the popular notion of a single academy and instead describing numerous institutions united by a goal of spiritual transformation. The sources explain that these schools, often housed in Per-Ankh (Houses of Life) within temple complexes, utilized a structured initiation process involving Seven Gates that combined psychological, astronomical, and physical exercises. Key components

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71:19

What Are the Origins of Judaism?

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/11/01

The source provides an extensive overview of the origins and historical development of Judaism, tracing its trajectory from the earliest Patriarchal Age through the Biblical period to the formation of Rabbinic Judaism after the destruction of the Second Temple. It explains that the religion arose not from a single moment, but through a complex interplay of migration, covenant, and survival within the ancient Near East, using evidence from archaeology (like the Merneptah Stele and the Tel Dan Stele)

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25:15

The Sumerian King List Reveals the Origin of...

The Forgotten Timeline ·

2025/10/31

The source provides an extensive examination of the Sumerian King List (SKL), an ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform artifact chronicling the reigns of rulers from mythical pre-Flood periods to verifiable historical dynasties. It explains that the SKL is not merely a chronological record but also an ideological and political manifesto compiled primarily during the Ur III period to legitimize kingship by asserting that authority descended directly from heaven. The analysis discusses the document's

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