Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countr
More than 4,000 years ago, a ruler came to power in the fractious, war-torn lands of Mesopotamia. He
To mark the release of Patrick's book The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shoo
Friend of the Show Dr. Keith Pluymers returns to tell us about how people thought about and fought o
We're often told that ancient Mesopotamia was the "Cradle of Civilization," but what made the region
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While Mesopotamia and even the Indus Valley get the lion's share of the attention, sophisticated and
When we think of the open grasslands of the Eurasian steppes, we usually imagine nomadic herders tak
Things didn't stop happening on the vast grasslands of the Eurasian steppes once the first waves of
Professor David Anthony is one of the world's foremost experts on the archaeology of the ancient Eur
Human bones are one of our most valuable and illuminating sources of information about the past, but
Around 4,500 years ago, bell-shaped ceramic drinking vessels called "beakers" begin showing up with
Five thousand years ago, small groups of herders began making their way from the open grasslands of
At the heart of the ancient Middle East, a sophisticated, urbanized, and long-lived world, was a wri
More than 5,000 years ago, a group of wandering herders on the Eurasian steppes - the original speak
What do Achilles and Gilgamesh, two of the most renowned literary figures of the ancient world, have
Egypt and Mesopotamia are the most famous civilizations of the ancient world, but at the same time i
South Asia - encompassing Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan - is one of the cradles of human civilizat
Professor Tim Denham is one of the world's leading experts on Kuk Swamp, the most important archaeol
The Highlands of New Guinea are one of the most remote places on the planet, a maze of crosscutting