History and myth of the Cradle of Civilization, bronze age Mesopotamia, beginning with the dawn of w
Finishing up the Kumarbi Cycle with the biggest of monsters, the Song of Hedammu and the Song of Ull
The Song of Lamma and the song of Silver, two further adventures in the Kumarbi cycle. Tessub may be
Today we begin the great epic of the Hurrians, the Kumarbi cycle, which in multiple fragmentary epis
This may be the late bronze age, but it is the golden age of chariot warfare. To a great degree, the
The world of the Late Bronze Age is expanding, and today we introduce the two final players to the n
The Hittites are not going to exceed the heights of king Mursili for a long, long time, if indeed th
Part two of daily life in Anatolia under the Hittites continues where we left off last time. And als
Daily life for the average anatolian living under the Hittites was not all that terrible, and though
Mursili I destroyed two empires, plundering Aleppo and Babylon, and ruled for thirty of the best yea
Hattusili I has already shown himself to be a cut above the Anatolian kings that have come before hi
A god is furious, and in his fury he has abandoned the people and the kingdom to suffer one catastro
The first king of the Hittites, Hattusili I, thought of himself as a conquering lion. Given his mili
This is a good place for new listeners to start, particularly those interested in the late bronze ag
We begin our series on the Hittites by looking at what came before the Hittites. This episode is a s
Assyria is deep in a dark age following the fall of Babylon. Struggling to hold on and fighting over
An interlude in our story. Today, a poem of passionate despair. With the collapse of Sumerian civili
An interlude in our story. We pause today to read a story by HP Lovecraft, the Nameless City, which
In a sense, not much happens in this episode. Covering a bit over a century, the borders of Babylon
Ubarum was just a man living in a small village in north Babylonia, one among possibly a few million
The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer, or Ludlul-Bel-Nimeqi, is one of the oldest works of theodicy in
