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Industry 2 The Stuff of Life
Today we are talking all about the sort of industry that would have occupied most of the attention of most of the people of the ancient world. That is to say, beer making. But to talk about beer, you have to start with grain, and to talk about grain you have to start with a … Continue reading Industry 2 The Stuff of Life
Industry 1 The Earthen World
Perhaps the defining material of ancient Mesopotamia was dirt. Buildings were made by mud brick, and those buildings were filled by clay pottery of all sorts. Today we are going to look at the people who made these things and how they made them. It will necessarily be a bit of a summary, sort of … Continue reading Industry 1 The Earthen World
Listener Questions and Answers Episode!
A long time ago I asked for listener questions, and also posted a call for questions over on tiktok, and here they are finally getting answered. This is theoretically the hundredth episode special, but depending on how you count it, we are either on episode 97 or on episode 110-ish. It is a grab bag … Continue reading Listener Questions and Answers Episode!
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- Industry 2 The Stuff of Life
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- Listener Questions and Answers Episode!
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- Canaanites!
- Elamites with Trevor Culley
- Ask your question about the ancient world!
- Episode 96 – Hittite 22 Fall of the Hittite Empire
- Episode 95 – Hittite 21 Hattusili Secures His Legacy
- Episode 94 – Hittite 20 Hattusili the Peace Maker
- Episode 93 Hittite 19 Hattusili’s Palace Drama
- Episode 92 – Annunaki 8 Nergal and Ereshkigal
- Episode 91 – Kassite 6 A Muddy Mesopotamian Mess
- Episode 90 – Kassite 5 Tukulti-Ninurta’s Victories
- Episode 89 – Kassite 4 The Peaceful Decline of Kassite Babylon
- Episode 88 – Assyria 5 The Destruction of Mitanni
- Episode 87 – Assyria 4 Rebirth of an Old City
- Episode 86 – Hittite 18 The Battle of Kadesh
- Episode 85 – Hittite 17 New Cities and New Villains
- Episode 84 – Hittite 16 Mursili’s Plague
- Episode 83 – Hittite 15 Vengeance, Mortal and Divine
- Episode 82 – Hittite 14 Suppiluliuma Irritates Egypt
- Episode 81 – Mitanni 9 King Tushratta Begs and Runs Away
- Episode 80 – Hittite 13 The Storm Before The Calm
- Episode 79 – Hittite 12 Magic and Medicine in Hattusa
- Episode 78 – Hittite 11 Foreigners and Vassals of Hatti
- Episode 77 – Hittite 10 Idrimi’s Adventure and Tudhaliya’s Invasion
- Episode 76 – Kassite 3 The Amarna Mailbag
- 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
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