Oh, hey, it's your old Dad Ward-Vond podcast, just slipping into your life to chat with you about ancient toilets, buried treasure, and Roman rulers.

Welcome to another episode of Smologies.

What are Smologies? You may be asking yourself.

They're smaller cuts of our classic episodes and we cut them down and we cut out all the

swear words so that they are classroom safe, they're kid-friendly, they're good for all ages, and this is a great

episode. People love this one, so now you can listen to it as a curriculum or with my grandpa

or whomever you like. If you want the full version, we're going to link it in the show notes.

That's the longer version with all the squares left in, but this one, it's safe.

Okay, enjoy. Okay, archaeology. Let's get into the etymology really quick.

Archaeology comes from the Greek, archaeology for beginning,

and classical archaeology deals specifically with ancient Rome or ancient Greece. Boy, howdy, hot dang, this ologist

knows his business. He's an American who lives in Rome, so the dude is literally walking the talk, and he's the executive director

of the American Institute for Roman Culture, and he's the host of a PBS series called Ancient Invisible Cities, as well as the Italian

series called Under Italy, where he crawls into cool tunnels and tombs.

It's very rad. So a statement on his website just reads,

my passion is Rome and it is not a lie and like a plague in ancient times it's

infectious. So hang on to your togas and recline on your

laurels to hear all kinds of dirt with classical archaeologist Dr Darius Aria. Darius Aria. Bologies.

It's allergies. It's out, Darius sounds like a superhero name. Yeah, almost rhymes, which I've gotten that.

Darius Aria.

Hello.

Also known as Dar.

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