Where should I start?
My goal with this show is to make each episode approachable for a first time listener, but certain episodes are better starting points than other, also some people are more interested in myth and some are more interested in straight history, so I am dividing up the podcast archive into sections for your convenience.
If I get lazy and stop updating this page, it should all be available at the show home on anchor.fm
Update: Turns out I get lazy more often than not, but I will update in batches when I get around to it.
History of Sumer and Akkad
OS2.5 – Before the Beginning
OS15 – Kings and Wars in Lagash
OS16 – Reform and Corruption in Lagash
OS17 – Sargon Rising
OS18 – Sargon at peace
OS19 – Sargon at war
OS20 – Sargon, the Next Generation
OS21 – Surpassing Sargon with Naram-Sin
OS22 – Slanderous Legends of Naram-Sin
OS23 – The Fall of Akkad
OS10 – King Shulgi’s Mailbag
OS24 – The Rebirth of Sumer
OS25 – The Last Sumerian Ibbi-Sin
Old Babylonian History
OS32 – Lay of the Land
OS33 – A Time of Ritual and Law
OS34 – Age of Chaos
OS35 – Middle Bronze Age Warfare
OS36 – The Founding of Babylon
OS37 – Petty Kings
OS38 – Rim-Sin the Pretty Good
OS39 – The Merchants and Families of Assyria
OS40 – Barbarian Kingdoms and Biblical Patriarchs
OS41 – Shamshi-Adad and the Upper Mesopotamian Empire
OS42 – Hammurabi’s Kingdom and Character
OS43 – Hammurabi’s Siegecraft and Diplomacy
OS44 – Hammurabi’s Military and Elamite War
OS45 – Hammurabi’s Medicine and Justice
OS46 – Hammurabi’s Northern Conquests and Agricultural Power
OS47 – Hammurabi’s Rebels and Oracles
OS48 – Hammurabi’s Women and Slaves
OS49 – Hammurabi’s Death and Legacy
OS51 – The New Order
OS54 – Soldier of Babylon, Ubarum
OS55 – Days of Quiet Prosperity
OS56 – Obscure Struggles in Assyria
Late Bronze Age History
OS57 – Ancient Anatolia
OS58 – Rise of the Hittites
OS59 – The Conquering Lion, Hattusili I
OS61 – The Conqueror’s Triumph and Death
OS62 – The Man Who Changed The World, Mursili I
OS63 – Village People
OS64 – Village Economics
OS65 – Disorder in the Court
OS66 – Entering the Arena
OS67 – Late Bronze Age Warfare
Mesopotamian Myth
OS1 – Enmerkar and Aratta
OS2 – Lugalbanda
OS3 – Gilgamesh and Enkidu
OS4 – Gilgamesh and Humbaba
OS5 – Gilgamesh has Adventures
OS6 – Gilgamesh and the bull of heaven
OS7 – Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim, and Immortality
OS8 – Ishtar Gains Power
OS9 – Ishtar and Dumazid
OS12 – Enlil Lord of Wind
OS13 – The God of Action Heroes Ninurta
OS14 – Ea, Tales from Creation
OS29 – The Enuma Elish
OS30 – The Tablet of Destinies
OS31 – First Men
OS52 – Theogony of Dunnu and The Education of Scribes
Hittite and Hurrian Myth
Bonus 1 – The Slaying of Illuyanka
OS60 – Telipinu, the Vanishing God
Wisdom Literature
OS11 – Instructions Manual
OS26 – The Oldest Debates
OS50 – Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
OS53 – Poem of the Righteous Sufferer
Miscellanious Episodes
OS27 – The Study of Sumer and Ancient Aliens
OS28 – The Chamorros of Saipan
Bonus 2 – Fanciful Notions of Antiquity
Bonus 3 – Lament for Ur
Oldest Stories 
Hey, I’ve been listening to your podcasts and I’m up to episode 33. Really enjoying it but I much prefer the myth episodes than history. Although in some cases the history is more interesting than myth, I find the listing off names of places and listing what people they were conquered by and what kind of crops they grow and names of kings and which wall they built…to not be very interesting. All of Sargon and the fall of Sumer and Akkad were just as interesting as the myths to me though. Are you planning to add more to the episode archive here to find myths easier? Or is it much more of a history podcast now?
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I do need to update a lot on the website. There are more myth episodes, a good variety of stuff, and though history is the focus because that is the frame for everything, there definitely are some parts that are more and less dry.
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