Tag Archives: Italy

The Trove – Episode 7: March 36th, 2020



Matzo ball soap. Swimming pool cakes. Cafe Bustelo.
Time is meaningless.

Also…

Mammoth facts, and creepy places made out of Mammoth Bones.

An unearthed trading port with an interesting commodity (and irritating infrastructure)

Weird swords in ancient monasteries, and the secrets they hold.

And the oldest substance in the solar system discovered in the middle of nowhere.

Courtney @DomesticPodcast  / https://linktr.ee/thecultofdomesticity
Max @Losttreasurepod  / Patreon.com/Relic


Episode 42 – Facets of Evil



The “cursed jewel” is a pop cultural trope with a very complicated history–the The Hope Diamond being the most famous example. Some of these dark gems have also gone missing. Was the Florentine Diamond’s disappearance due to bad luck and greed, or did it, The Hope, and Black Orlov curse their owners into misfortune and despair?

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@losttreasurepod

Music by by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)


Treasures and Tyrants



Relic will be back in February 2018 with the last half of season 1! Until then, here’s a quick dive into our first season and its thematic arc. This will also serve as a first look towards our final stretch: the lost artifacts of World War II, and Hitler’s schemes to hoard all of the world’s treasures under one roof.


Episode 17 – The Italians Who Stole Christmas



The second holiday special! Saint Nicholas is one of Catholicism’s most honored Saints, a figure who would go on to inspire the folkloric character known as Santa Claus. But this Saint did not enjoy a peaceful rest in death. In 1087, an ambitious cabal of Italian sailors decided to rob his tomb in a get-rich-quick controversy that, 1,000 years later, remains unresolved. Merry Christmas!

Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Episode 16 – A Light in the Temple; or Menorah, Menorah, I’m Lookin’ For Ya



The first of Relic’s two holiday specials! The menorah is a nine-pronged candle holder, ceremonially lit during the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah. It is modeled after a human-sized, gilded lamp that once sat in the sacred Temple of Jerusalem. Created after a brutal rebellion to take back the city, the original menorah remained in the temple for hundreds of years, until it was stolen by the Romans. Do their successors still have it?

Theme music by Devin. Music by Kevin MacLeod and Derek Fiechter.