Tristan Hughes

Summer is just around the corner in the UK.

The weather is turning up and we are turning on the ancients today to Armageddon.

Now, why do you ask?

Well, it is no secret.

We know how much you love it when we do episodes on ancient catastrophes and collapses.

We've seen the stats.

Your Pompeys, your Maya collapses, your Sodom and Gomorrahs, your, or what else is there, Bronze Age collapses, prehistoric plagues, etc.

Look,

I get it.

I am equally fascinated by those topics.

But the team and I realized a few weeks back now, we realized that we haven't ever covered one of the biggest carnage words in our dictionary, Armageddon, which has its own fascinating ancient story, the story of a biblical event, but more importantly, of an actual place.

And that is what we're delving into today with a guest who certainly fits into the category of fan favourite on The Ancients.

He is none other than Professor Eric Klein.

Let's go.

Armageddon.

Today the word immediately conjures images of the end of the world, of apocalyptic catastrophes, of God's final judgement.

And Bruce Willis in an astronaut suit.

But Armageddon isn't just a concept or a prophesized event.

It's a place.

An ancient city called Megiddo, situated in modern-day Israel.