It's the entrance on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast

well it's fantastic to see that to the first episode in our new mini series on chariots

in antiquity. It's been really well received and rest assured we're continuing the story

today and we've the same guest we've got Michael Ode's back on the show in the last episode

he focused in on New Kingdom Egyptian chariots, on Hittites chariots, the Trojan war chariots

and also about chariots in ancient China and now we're continuing the story. We're going to be

focusing in on how the chariots really did become the sports car of antiquity in the central

Mediterranean and in northwestern Europe. We're going to be focusing in on late Iron Age Britain.

We're going to be looking at the use of the chariot there. Remember the famous statue of

Budhika which you can see on embankment near the houses of Parliament in London and remember on

that statue that there are famously sides. Now are these sides true or are they fictional?

What are you about to find out? And from late Iron Age Britain we then go to the heart of what

would be the Roman Empire. We're going to ancient Rome and we're going to be focusing on how

the Romans didn't use chariots for military means but they use them for entertainment.

So that further ado is Mike.

Mike Lodes, great to get you back on the show. It is always my pleasure, Tristan.

Now last podcast we talked really about the golden age of chariots. We looked at the Egyptians,

the Hittites, Maesanayans, ancient China and the transition to the horse archer with the Assyrians.

But now let's go a bit further on in the story. Let's go to northern Europe in Iron Age times

because Mike we do have that archaeological evidence that suggests that chariots were

prominent in that part of the world at that time. Yeah we've got tons of archaeological evidence.

They've been digging chariots up all over the place in Scotland and Yorkshire and Wales and northern

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