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🏝️🌋 Episode 21 is now live! 🌋🏝️

Posted on August 23, 2026 by Paul M.M. Cooper

Beneath the shade of an Indonesian teak forest, a great brick gateway stands in ruins…

In this episode, I want to tell the story of the Majapahit Empire of medieval Indonesia. I want to show how this empire of the islands grew up on the volcanic island of Java, and how it beat the odds to survive in a world of medieval superpowers. I want to show how Majapahit expanded its influence and dominion to other lands, and undertook voyages that have few precedents in history. And I want to show what happened to bring this empire of the islands finally crashing down…

YouTube: https://youtu.be/01CZBhZM430?is=8Aql9WpzW8eRQZpY

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3xZ9YKlBZ3NO51YG67ICOZ

🗿 Episode 6 of Fall of Civilizations is now live! 🗿

Posted on July 26, 2019March 5, 2021 by Paul M.M. Cooper

In this episode, we take a look at one of archaeology’s most enduring puzzles: the mystery of Easter Island. Find out how this unique community grew up in complete isolation, severed from the rest of the world by a vast expanse of ocean. Discover the incredible story of how it survived for so many centuries, and examine the evidence about what happened to finally bring this society, and its statues, crashing down.

This episode, we’re joined by children from the Toki School of Music and Arts on Easter Island, who were kind enough to record some traditional ancestral chants especially for the podcast.

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