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Recent Episodes
Episode 75 – Kassite 2 Building Babylonia
The growth of Kassite Babylonia, also called Karduniash, continues apace. Just like last week, Kassite Babylonia is very poorly documented, and thus we are going to cover all the way from Pharaoh Thutmose III to Pharaoh Akhenaten. That’s right, Kassite Babylonia has so little history that we make our bookmarks against Egyptian history instead of … Continue reading Episode 75 – Kassite 2 Building Babylonia
Episode 74 – Kassite 1 A New Dawn for Babylon
Babylon is reborn! Following the decline and sack of Babylon, the entire region was devastated for decades. However, even in these ashes lay the seeds of a new growth, the Kassite Dynasty, which will emerge to rebuild not just Babylon but the whole region. This is a relatively poorly documented century, but a significant one, … Continue reading Episode 74 – Kassite 1 A New Dawn for Babylon
Episode 73 – Mitanni 8 Corruption in Nuzi
True crime! Corruption in city hall! A gang of thugs terrorizing a town! One of the most interesting finds in the town of Nuzi is a series of court documents which contain testemony about a large number of criminal activities by a gang of thugs, including men who have positions in city hall. Today we … Continue reading Episode 73 – Mitanni 8 Corruption in Nuzi
Read through the archives:
- Episode 75 – Kassite 2 Building Babylonia
- Episode 74 – Kassite 1 A New Dawn for Babylon
- Episode 73 – Mitanni 8 Corruption in Nuzi
- Bonus 4 Akitu New Year Special
- Episode 72 – Mitanni 7 Lawyers of Nuzi
- Episode 71 – Mitanni 6 Hurrian Wisdom
- Episode 70 – Mitanni 5 Mighty Monsters of Mitanni
- Episode 69 – Mitanni 4 Kumarbi Strikes Back
- Episode 68 – Mitanni 3 The Song of Kumarbi
- Episode 67 – Mitanni 2 Late Bronze Age Warfare
- Episode 66 – Mitanni 1 Entering the Arena
- Episode 65 – Hittite 9 Disorder in the Court
- Episode 64 – Hittite 8 Village Economics
- Episode 63 – Hittite 7 Village People
- Episode 62 – Hittite 6 The Man Who Changed The World, Mursili I
- Episode 61 – Hittite 5 The Conqueror’s Triumph and Death
- Episode 60 – Hittite 4 Telipinu, the Vanishing God
- Episode 59 – Hittite 3 The Conquering Lion, Hattusili I
- Episode 58 – Hittite 2 Rise of the Hittites
- Episode 57 – Hittite 1 Ancient Anatolia
- Episode 56 – Assyria 3 Obscure Struggles in Assyria
- Episode B3 – Ur 4 Lament for Ur
- Episode B1 – Hattian 1 The Nefarious Slaying of Illuyanka
- Episode B2 – Modern 1 Fanciful Notions of Antiquity
- Episode 55 – Babylon 12 Days of Quiet Prosperity
- Episode 54 – Babylon 11 Soldier of Babylon, Ubarum
- Episode 53 – Wisdom 4 Poem of the Righteous Sufferer
- Episode 52 – Anunnaki 8 Theogony of Dunnu and The Education of Scribes
- Episode 51 – Babylon 10 The New Order
- Episode 50 – Babylon 9 Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
- Episode 49 – Babylon 8 Hammurabi’s Death and Legacy
- Episode 48 – Babylon 7 Hammurabi’s Women and Slaves
- Episode 47 – Babylon 6 Hammurabi’s Rebels and Oracles
- Episode 46 – Babylon 5 Hammurabi’s Northern Conquests and Agricultural Power
- Episode 45 – Babylon 4 Hammurabi’s Medicine and Justice
- Episode 44 – Babylon 3 Hammurabi’s Military and Elamite War
- Episode 43 – Babylon 2 Hammurabi’s Siegecraft and Diplomacy
- Episode 42 – Babylon 1 Hammurabi’s Kingdom and Character
- Episode 41 – Assyria 2 Shamshi-Adad and the Upper Mesopotamian Empire
- Episode 40 – Syria 1 Barbarian Kingdoms and Biblical Patriarchs
- Episode 39 – Assyria 1 The Merchants and Families of Assyria
- Episode 38 – Amorite 7 Rim Sin the Pretty Good
- Episode 37 – Amorite 6 Petty Kings
- Episode 36 – Amorite 5 The Founding of Babylon
- Episode 35 – Amorite 4 Middle Bronze Age Warfare
- Episode 34 – Amorite 3 Age of Chaos
- Episode 33 – Amorite 2 A Time of Ritual and Law
- Episode 32 – Amorite 1 Lay of the Land
- Episode 31 – Wisdom 3 First Men
- Episode 30 – Anunnaki 7 The Tablet of Destinies
- Episode 29 – Anunnaki 6 The Enuma Elish
- Episode 28 – Interlude 1 The Chamorros of Saipan
- Episode 27 – Misc 1 The Study of Sumer and Ancient Aliens
- Episode 26 – Wisdom 2 The Oldest Debates
- Mesopotamian New Year Akitu Festival and You
- Episode 25 – Ur 3 The Last Sumerian Ibbi-Sin
- Episode 24 – Ur 1 The rebirth of Sumer
- Episode 35 – Amorite 4 Middle Bronze Age Warfare
- Episode 23 – Akkad 7 The Fall of Akkad
- Episode 22 – Akkad 6 Slanderous Legends of Naram-Sin
- Episode 21 – Akkad 5 Surpassing Sargon with Naram-Sin
- Episode 20 – Akkad 4 Sargon, the Next Generation
- Episode 19 – Akkad 3 Sargon at war
- Episode 18 – Akkad 2 Sargon at Peace
- Episode 17 – Akkad 1 Sargon Rising
- Episode 16 – Lagash 2 Reform and Corruption in Lagash
- Episode 15 – Lagash 1 Kings and Wars in Lagash
- Episode 14 – Anunnaki 5 Ea, Tales from Creation
- Episode 13 – Anunnaki 4 God of Action Heroes Ninurta
- Episode 12 – Anunnaki 3 Enlil Lord of Wind
- Episode 11 – Wisdom 1 Instructions Manual
- Episode 10 – Mailbag 1 King Shulgi’s Mailbag
- Episode 9 – Anunnaki 2 Ishtar and Dumazid
- Episode 8 – Anunnaki 1 Ishtar Gains Power
- Episode 7 – Sumerians 7 Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim, and Immortality
- Episode 6 – Sumerians 6 Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven
- Episode 5 – Sumerians 5 Gilgamesh has Adventures
- Episode 4 – Sumerians 4, Gilgamesh vs Humbaba
- Episode 3 – Sumerians 3, Gilgamesh and the Taming of Enkidu
- Episode 2.5 – Mesopotamia 0 Before the Beginning
- Episode 2 – Sumerians 2, Lugalbanda, the first superhero
- Episode 1 – Sumerians 1, Enmerkar and Aratta
- Welcome to the Oldest Stories podcast!
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