Ancient history with the doors left open.
Earth Ancients follows open-ended conversations about archaeology, sacred landscapes, fringe history, and spiritual experience. The show is curious rather than clipped, giving guests room to connect mound builders, Mesoamerica, Antarctica, hospice, meditation, and Indigenous cosmology into larger questions about human origins.
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Earth Ancients is a conversation show for people who want ancient history with the doors left open. Its center is not a single theory. It is a style of inquiry that treats ruined cities, mound cultures, Mesoamerican sites, spiritual practice, and anomalous traditions as material worth hearing out. Cliff Dunning gives the show its steady frame, often starting with a personal setup before moving into guest-led explanation. The pacing is measured. Conversations are allowed to circle back, pause, and wander into side paths when the subject calls for it. In the Adena episode, the discussion lingers over tablets, birds of prey, vultures, water imagery, red ochre, sharpening grooves, and the possibility that some objects served as tattoo templates. That kind of detail is typical of the show at its best. It likes artifacts because artifacts open questions. It likes cosmology because cosmology connects objects to worldviews. Mesoamerica is another recurring anchor, especially through talk of the Olmec, Guatemala, Yucatan, Mexico, Central Mexico, and tour experiences around ruins. The show also stretches beyond archaeology into spiritual and end-of-life subjects. A conversation on Zen caregiving uses hospice and meditation to think about impermanence, family strain, and the emotional difficulty of watching someone die. Other episodes gesture toward Antarctica, meditation, ego, star people, sky beings, and Indigenous cosmology. The range can be uneven, and ad blocks or cross-promos sometimes intrude on the listening experience. Still, the editorial identity is clear. Earth Ancients is for listeners who are comfortable moving between documented sites, alternative interpretations, spiritual testimony, and big speculative questions. It does not present itself as detached scholarship. It is warmer, looser, and more personally invested than that. Its appeal is the invitation to keep looking at the past as unfinished business.
Made for: For listeners drawn to ancient sites, alternative history, archaeology, spirituality, and unexplained traditions. It especially suits people who prefer expansive interviews over tightly edited conclusions.
What sets it apart: Earth Ancients blends artifact-level detail with spiritual and speculative inquiry, moving comfortably from Adena iconography to Zen hospice practice or Indigenous cosmology. Its distinction is the patient, open-ended space it gives to subjects most history shows keep at the margins.
Earth Ancients chronicles the growing (and often suppressed) evidence of known and unknown civilizations, their ruined cities, and artifacts developed from advanced science and technology. Erased from the pages of time, these cultures discovered and charted the heavens, developed earth-centric sciences and unleashed advancements that parallel and, in many cases, surpass our own. Join us and discover our lost history.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Earth Ancients pairs artifact-level historical curiosity with wide-ranging guest interviews that readily enter speculative accounts of the distant past.
Cliff Dunning gives guests room to follow unusual questions wherever they lead. Earth Ancients uses extended interviews to connect material traces of the past with speculative interpretations: a conversation about Adena tablets attends to carved imagery, pigments, sharpening…
Adena tattoo templates meet Atlantean temples, with your certainty politely left at the door.
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A small set of Adena tablets opens into a wider conversation about symbols, ritual use, and possible cosmology.
The episode follows the Adena mound builders of the Ohio Valley and a small group of tablets that are handled as evidence, not oddities. It lingers on sandstone surfaces, grooves on the backs, traces of red ochre, repeating bird figures, and water motifs, while weighing the…
A calm, grounded talk about impermanence, hospice, and the limits of caregiving.
Roy Remer turns a caregiving conversation into something quieter and heavier than it first sounds. Cliff Dunning keeps it rooted in lived experience, then opens the door to Zen practice, hospice volunteering, and the strain families carry when they try to do everything…
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A podcast exploring evidence of advanced ancient civilizations and their lost technologies.
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A podcast exploring evidence of advanced ancient civilizations and their lost technologies.
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Earth Ancients presents Cynthia Zak and her book The Joy of Sleeping Alone: 64 Rituals to Become the Sovereign of Your Bed and Your Life, a framework that links separate sleep with better rest, lucid dreaming, and day-to-day functioning.
Host Cliff Dunning announces the 2026 Earth Ancients Grand Egyptian Tour, including visits to the Grand Egyptian Museum and other ancient sites.