The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

Located in Vatican City, just off St. Peter Square,

lies one of the plainest and most uninteresting buildings you might never find.

It has no adornments and it's just a solid beige color.

However, inside that bland structure, you will find one of humanity's greatest artistic achievements,

and to enjoy it, you just might get a sore neck.

Learn more about the Sistine Chapel,

the building, the art, and its history,

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. I am Peter Zablocki, host of Evergreen Network's History Short podcast.

If you are a fan of serious yet equally fun history, then I hope you can join me for daily 10 minute

episodes and weekly interviews with history personalities. This month's

spotlight guest is Mr. Dan Carlin of Hardcore History. You know I

used to say that I wanted to be an American archaeologist, and when somebody said,

what's an American archaeologist, I said an impatient archaeologist.

So the kind of people you call when you're going to build an Aswan dam or something and you're going to flood the entire valley in six months and you say to them

get whatever you can get out fast otherwise it's getting flooded and you go in there with bulldozers.

Forget the little paint brushes, you say, hey, normally I'd have a paintbrush,

but otherwise it's all getting flooded and I'm gonna grab every mummy I see.

So just be the impatient archaeologist. Yeah. This belongs to the museum kind of.

That's right. Check out history shorts on Apple Podcast, Evergreen Podcast or wherever you get

your shows. I'm Ken Horba, host of Warriors in their own words,

a podcast that presents the unvernished, unsanitized truth of what we have asked

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