Ancient Warfare Podcast
Hosted by Murray · The History Network
4.5from 731 ratings
- 442
- Episodes
- 108
- Transcribed
- 731
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2008
- First episode
- 548K
- YouTube views
About Ancient Warfare Podcast
Discussions from Ancient Warfare Magazine. Why did early civilisations fight? Who were their Generals? What was life like for the earliest soldiers? Ancient Warfare Magazine will try and answer these questions. Warfare minus two thousand years.
- Publisher
- The History Network
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Feb 2008
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
108 of 442 episodes have a transcript.
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AWA427 - Questions about ancient military signal jamming
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AWA427 - Questions about ancient military signal jamming
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And that is recorded, again, during the Peloponnesian War. And it's both in Thucydides, Book 3, Chapter 22. Can I get there quickly and read it? Book 3, Chapter 22. I guess that's Book 2. 321, 322. Here we go. And this is the siege of Plataea in 428 BC. And so what you get is you have fire signaling being issued and the actual fire signaling is then jammed by other signals, other fires being lit. And so they basically mean that the Meaning of that signal is completely obliterated through the person who is seeing it, which is very cool. So, for instance, where are we? We are in 322.7. Meanwhile, the 300 men set aside for service on emergencies went outside the wall in the direction of the alarm. […]
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- YouTube views
- 548,472
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 536 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 195 ratings
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