Please Don’t Eat The Priceless Artifact (yes, it’s artifact week) - That Was Genius Episode 10

Artifact's is this week's topic. Sam discusses the Shang Oracle Bones - a priceless gateway to a lost civilization that was almost eaten out of existence.

Meanwhile Tom looks at the Hedwig Beakers, the incredible glasses which shed light on a lost and complicated period in Mediterranean history. Which all sounds very high brow, but don't worry - there's lots of swearing and silly jokes in there too.

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Welcome to That Was Genius: Two blokes. A 12-hour time difference. An immature sense of humour. And 10,000 years of human civilisation. A weekly podcast looking at the weirder side of history.

Join Sam Datta-Paulin (he likes history and lives in Britain) and Tom Berry (he also likes history but lives in New Zealand), for a weekly reflection on the bold, the brilliant... And the downright strange.

From bizarre events and stories to equally odd inventions, barely a day goes by without something incredible (or incredibly stupid) happening around the world.

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