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Estimated from 12 chart positions in 12 markets.
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- 🇺🇸US · History#1275K to 30K
- 🇨🇦CA · History#1375K to 30K
- 🇦🇺AU · History#1525K to 30K
- 🇬🇧GB · History#1925K to 30K
- 🇩🇪DE · History#1925K to 30K
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9.6K to 58K🎙 Daily cadence·44 episodes·Last published yesterday - Monthly Reach
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32K to 192K🇺🇸16%🇨🇦16%🇦🇺16%+9 more - Active Followers
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13K to 77K
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Interview: Shannon Chakraborty and Historical Fantasy
Jun 24, 2026
35m 39s
Seqenenre Tao
Jun 17, 2026
29m 35s
A Quick Guide to Ancient Egypt
Jun 10, 2026
31m 26s
The Princess of Xiaohe
Jun 3, 2026
28m 02s
Interview: Producer, Writer, and Director Tim Haines on Surviving Earth and Bringing the Distant Past to Life
May 27, 2026
29m 20s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/24/26 |  Interview: Shannon Chakraborty and Historical Fantasy | Shannon Chakraborty is a bestselling author of wonderful historical fantasy (Daevabad Trilogy, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, The Tapestry of Fate). We chat about creating better fantasy worlds, how history has inspired her, the Cairo Geniza and the medieval Islamicate world, and much more.Become a member now at www.patreon.com/cw/PastLivesMedia. You'll get access to the Past Lives Discord server and four pieces of bonus content per month (including a historian interview, book club, Q and A, and a sources and evidence discussion). Past Lives is a 100-percent independent production, and your support is what allows us to make this show. So, thank you. | 35m 39s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | Seqenenre Tao | Thirty-five hundred years ago, an Egyptian king was killed in ghastly fashion. How and why did Seqenenre Tao meet his end? Using a combination of his mummy, advanced techniques of analysis, and old-fashioned history, we explore the death of an Egyptian king.Become a member now at www.patreon.com/cw/PastLivesMedia. You'll get access to the Past Lives Discord server and four pieces of bonus content per month (including a historian interview, book club, Q and A, and a sources and evidence discussion). Past Lives is a 100-percent independent production, and your support is what allows us to make this show. So, thank you. | 29m 35s | ||||||
| 6/10/26 | A Quick Guide to Ancient Egypt✨ | Ancient EgyptMummies+3 | — | — | Egypt | Ancient Egypthistory+5 | — | 31m 26s | |
| 6/3/26 | The Princess of Xiaohe✨ | ancient historyarchaeology+4 | — | Princess of Xiaohe | Tarim BasinChina | Princess of XiaoheTarim Basin+5 | — | 28m 02s | |
| 5/27/26 | Interview: Producer, Writer, and Director Tim Haines on Surviving Earth and Bringing the Distant Past to Life✨ | documentariesmass extinctions+3 | Tim Haines | PeacockWalking with Dinosaurs+2 | — | documentarymass extinction+5 | — | 29m 20s | |
| 5/20/26 | Xinjiang: The Crossroads of Eurasia✨ | XinjiangEurasia+3 | — | — | XinjiangChina | XinjiangEurasia+3 | Past Lives Media | 26m 59s | |
| 5/13/26 | The Corps of Discovery Wasn't Just Lewis and Clark: Interview with Craig Fehrman✨ | Lewis and ClarkCorps of Discovery+3 | Craig Fehrman | New York TimesPast Lives Media+2 | — | Lewis and ClarkCorps of Discovery+5 | — | 37m 46s | |
| 5/6/26 | Gebelein Man and the Roots of Ancient Egypt✨ | ancient EgyptGebelein Man+4 | — | Past Lives | Upper Nile Valleyancient Egypt | Gebelein Manancient Egypt+5 | — | 30m 18s | |
| 4/29/26 | Ötzi the Iceman✨ | Ötzi the Icemanarchaeology+3 | — | — | Ötztal AlpsItaly | ÖtziIceman+5 | — | 29m 00s | |
| 4/22/26 | The Shaman of Bad Dürrenberg✨ | shamanismarchaeology+3 | — | — | Bad DürrenbergGermany | shamanBad Dürrenberg+6 | — | 27m 54s | |
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| 4/15/26 | Audiobook Chapter: Lost Worlds✨ | audiobookClovis people+4 | — | Past Lives MediaPatreon+1 | Europe | audiobookLost Worlds+5 | — | 50m 38s | |
| 4/8/26 | The Ancient One/Kennwick Man (North America, 8,500 Years Ago)✨ | ancient historyarchaeology+3 | — | — | Columbia River | Kennewick Manancient skeleton+3 | — | 25m 00s | |
| 4/1/26 | Anzick-1 (North America, 13,000 Years Ago)✨ | archaeologyClovis Culture+4 | — | — | Montana | Anzick-1Clovis Culture+5 | — | 28m 29s | |
| 3/25/26 | Introducing Season 2: Bodily Experiences✨ | human remainshistorical experiences+4 | — | Past LivesPatreon+1 | — | pasthistory+5 | — | 23m 28s | |
| 3/18/26 | Recommended Listen: History Daily✨ | historyslavery+3 | — | History DailyPast Lives Media+1 | — | History DailyAmistad+3 | — | 33m 22s | |
| 3/11/26 | Why Slavery Matters✨ | slaveryhistory+3 | — | Past Lives MediaPatreon | Assyria | slaveryhistory+4 | — | 20m 29s | |
| 3/4/26 | Matilda McCrear, the Clotilda, and the Last Survivors of the Transatlantic Slave Trade✨ | Transatlantic Slave TradeMatilda McCrear+4 | — | Clotilda | United StatesMobile Bay+2 | ClotildaMatilda McCrear+5 | — | 28m 19s | |
| 2/25/26 | Olaudah Equiano's Atlantic World✨ | Olaudah EquianoAtlantic slavery+3 | — | — | — | Olaudah EquianoAtlantic World+3 | Past Lives MediaCODE | 29m 18s | |
| 2/18/26 | Moll and the Indian Slave Trade in Colonial America (18th Century)✨ | Indian Slave TradeColonial America+3 | — | Past Lives | CarolinasBoston | MollIndian Slave Trade+5 | Patreoncw/PastLivesMedia | 25m 13s | |
| 2/11/26 | Maddalena, the Medici, and Slavery in the Renaissance (Florence, 15th century) | We don't usually think of the Italian Renaissance - the time of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Borgias - as a world of slaves, but there were many enslaved people in Florence, Rome, Venice, and Genoa. One of them was Maddalena, whose life took her from the Black Sea to the household of Cosimo de Medici, one of the richest and most powerful men in Europe.Become a member now at www.patreon.com/cw/PastLivesMedia. You'll get access to the Past Lives Discord server and four pieces of bonus content per month (including a historian interview, book club, Q and A, and a sources and evidence discussion). Past Lives is a 100-percent independent production, and your support is what allows us to make this show. So, thank you. | 26m 46s | ||||||
| 2/4/26 | Sultan Baybars (Mamluk, 13th Century) | Sultan Baybars started his life as a Kipchak Turk on the steppe and ended it as the ruler of the most powerful state in the Islamic world. Slavery - military slavery, the practice of taking boys and training them as soldiers - was his pathway to power, but what did it mean for him and the thousands of others forced into that life?Become a member now at www.patreon.com/cw/PastLivesMedia. You'll get access to the Past Lives Discord server and four pieces of bonus content per month (including a historian interview, book club, Q and A, and a sources and evidence discussion). Past Lives is a 100-percent independent production, and your support is what allows us to make this show. So, thank you. | 27m 34s | ||||||
| 1/28/26 | Freedmen, Work, and Race in Colonial Philadelphia: Interview with Professor Keith Pluymers | My dear friend Professor Keith Pluymers joins me to discuss a man listed in a Philadelphia city account book as "Negro Joe," and we try to reconstruct what his life, work, and experience of the city would have been.Become a member now at www.patreon.com/cw/PastLivesMedia. You'll get access to the Past Lives Discord server and four pieces of bonus content per month (including a historian interview, book club, Q and A, and a sources and evidence discussion). Past Lives is a 100-percent independent production, and your support is what allows us to make this show. So, thank you. | 42m 06s | ||||||
| 1/21/26 | Saint Patrick, Slavery, and the Fall of the Roman Empire | Saint Patrick is one of the most famous individuals who lived in the late Roman Empire, but long before he became the apostle of the Irish, he was a Romano-British teenager who was abducted from his home and enslaved for six years.Become a member now at www.patreon.com/cw/PastLivesMedia. You'll get access to the Past Lives Discord server and four pieces of bonus content per month (including a historian interview, book club, Q and A, and a sources and evidence discussion). Past Lives is a 100-percent independent production, and your support is what allows us to make this show. So, thank you. | 26m 50s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | Abbas and the Roman Slave Trade (Parthia, Second Century AD) | On May 24th, 166 AD, a seven-year-old boy was sold for the price of 200 denarii in the city of Seleucia Pieria. How did Abbas get there, and what happened to him afterward? The answers shed a great deal of light on how the Roman slave trade actually worked in practice.Become a member now at www.patreon.com/cw/PastLivesMedia. You'll get access to the Past Lives Discord server and four pieces of bonus content per month (including a historian interview, book club, Q and A, and a sources and evidence discussion). Past Lives is a 100-percent independent production, and your support is what allows us to make this show. So, thank you. | 26m 40s | ||||||
| 1/7/26 | Eurysaces’ Bakers and the Hell of Roman Industry | Standing just outside Rome's Porta Maggiore is a unique funeral monument to a successful baking entrepreneur named Eurysaces, who was proud of his occupation and his prosperity. But Eurysaces' wealth rested on the brutalized laborers who worked in his hellish industrial bakery, and through Eurysaces, we can understand them.Become a member now at www.patreon.com/cw/PastLivesMedia. You'll get access to the Past Lives Discord server and four pieces of bonus content per month (including a historian interview, book club, Q and A, and a sources and evidence discussion). Past Lives is a 100-percent independent production, and your support is what allows us to make this show. So, thank you. | 25m 49s | ||||||
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